Current Member
Benjamin Matthew Barson
Funding provided by the Herodotus Fund
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of study
Jazz Studies and Afro-Atlantic History
Home institution
Bucknell University
Website
Benjamin Barson is a historian, saxophonist-composer, and musicologist. At the Institute for Advanced Study, he will work on a book project exploring jazz, radio, and Black internationalist politics across the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean, with particular attention to Cuba, Haiti, and New Orleans between 1898 and 1959.
Visits
Member
School of Historical Studies
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Fall
Degrees
University of Pittsburgh
Ph.D.
2021