| Graduate Fellows 2007-2008 |
 Michael Birenbaum QuinteroThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Department of Music, GSAS “The Musical Making of Race and Place in Colombia's Black Pacific” Michael Birenbaum Quintero is a Ph.D. candidate in Ethnomusicology in New York University’s Department of Music. He is the recipient of various awards, including the Fulbright International Institutional Exchange Grant, The New York University Humanities Fellowship, the New York University Presidential Service Award, and the Society for Ethnomusicology’s Charles Seeger Prize. He has published in English and Spanish academic journals and edited volumes, and has worked closely with musicians on concerts and workshops as well as on a recording by the Smithsonian Folkways label. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Colombia and is the founder and director of NYU’s Afrocolombian Marimba Ensemble. He has been an Associated Investigator with the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History and a consultant with the Colombian Ministry of Culture and the PCN, an Afro-Colombian activist organization. He is currently writing a dissertation on the Afrocolombian music known as “currulao” and the black political movement in Colombia, titled: “Déjame Subir/Let Me Rise: The Musical Making of Race and Place in Colombia's Black Pacific.” His blog, La Guayabita, can be found at www.laguayabita.blogspot.com.  Marcela EcheverriThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Department of History, GSAS “Popular Royalists and Revolution in Colombia: Nationalism and Empire, 1780-1840” Marcela Echeverri has a background in Anthropology (BA, Los Andes University, 1997) and Political Theory (MA, New School for Social Research, 2001) and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in New York University’s Latin American and Caribbean History program with a dissertation entitled “Popular Royalists and Revolution in Colombia: Nationalism and Empire, 1780-1840.” She has been a fellow of the Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia (ICANH) in Bogotá, Colombia (2004-2005); of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) and the Fundación Mapfre in Madrid, Spain (2005-2006); of the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, RI (2007); and is currently a recipient of an NYU Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship for writing (2007-2008) as well as an honorary fellow of NYU’s Humanities Initiative. Her publications include a contribution to The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, 1750 to the Present, ed. Peter N. Stearns (OUP, 2008), and the articles “Conflicto y hegemonía en el suroccidente de la Nueva Granada, 1780-1800,” Revista Fronteras de la Historia 11 (2006) and “Antropólogas pioneras y nacionalismo liberal en Colombia (1941-1949),” Revista Colombiana de Antropología 43 (2007).  Karen Santos Da SilvaThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Department of French, GSAS “From Maxims to Novels: The Modern Ethics of Subjectivity in the Work of Madame Riccoboni” Karen Santos Da Silva is a Ph.D. student in the Department of French Literature and Civilization in GSAS at NYU. Under the direction of Professor Anne Deneys-Tunney, she is working on her dissertation entitled "From Maxims to Novels: The Modern Ethics of Subjectivity in the Work of Madame Riccoboni" in which she studies the interplay between Riccoboni's novel of sensibility and the seventeenth-century classical moralist discourses that Riccoboni integrates in her fictions. In addition to finishing this project, Karen is beginning the process of looking for a university position somewhere, alas, outside of New York City. |
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