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
–
Fall
Degrees
University of Pittsburgh
Ph.D.
2021
Honors
2026
Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Outstanding Book Award — Caribbean Philosophical Association
2025
Barry and Claire Brook Award — CUNY Graduate Center
2025
Robert M. Stevenson Award — American Musicological Society
2025
Stone Book Award, Finalist — Museum of African American History
2018
Johnny Mandel Prize for Jazz Composition — ASCAP Foundation
2017
Fred Ho Composer Award — ASCAP
Appointments
Bucknell University
2024
Samuel L. Williams Endowed Assistant Professor of Music