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 Katherine
Hagedorn
Professor of
Music
Thatcher 108, (909) 607-2456,
katherine.hagedorn@pomona.edu
Expertise Profile
Dr. Katherine Johanna Hagedorn is Professor of
Music at Pomona College in Claremont, California, where
she teaches seminars on the performance traditions of
the African diaspora and Latin America, survey courses
in "world music," and classes on ethnomusicological
theory and method. Professor Hagedorn also directs
Pomona's ethnomusicology program, which features a
Balinese gamelan gong kebyar, a rotating
ensemble-in-residence (Ghanaian drumming, Flamenco
guitar, Afro-Cuban percussion, etc.), a concert and
lecture series, and an interdisciplinary plan of study.
Her research, carried out in Cuba and the United States,
focuses on Afro-Cuban religious and folkloric
performance, with an emphasis on the central role of
batá drumming. Dr. Hagedorn has published articles and
review essays in World of Music, British
Journal of Ethnomusicology, and Ethnomusicology.
Her book, Divine Utterances: The Performance of
Afro-Cuban Santería (Smithsonian Institution Press,
2001), won the Alan Merriam Prize for best ethnography
in 2002. In 2005, Dr. Hagedorn was awarded a coveted
Mellon New Directions Fellowship for her new research
project, "Toward a Theology of Sound." Trained as a
classical pianist, Dr. Hagedorn has performed West
African, Afro-Cuban, and Indonesian percussive
traditions since the late 1980s. She has a B.A. in
Comparative Language and Literature from Tufts
University, an M.A. in International Relations from The
Johns Hopkins University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in
Ethnomusicology from Brown University. Dr. Hagedorn has
taught at Pomona College since 1993, and in 2002 was
awarded a Wig Teaching Award by Pomona College. In 2000,
she was the recipient of the prestigious California
Professor of the Year award, sponsored by the Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the
Council for the Advancement and Support of Education.
Dr. Hagedorn is pleased to be serving as Associate Dean
of the Faculty from July 2009 through June 2012. |
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