Ingrid Monson

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'''Ingrid Monson''' is [[Quincy Jones]] Professor of African-American Music, supported by the [[Time Warner]] Endowment, and Professor of [[African and African American studies]] at [[Harvard University]].{{cite web|title=Ingrid Monson|url=http://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/ingrid-monson|website=aaas.fas.harvard.edu|publisher=Harvard University|accessdate=3 April 2017|language=en}}
'''Ingrid Monson''' is [[Quincy Jones]] Professor of African-American Music, supported by the [[Time Warner]] Endowment, and Professor of [[African and African American studies]] at [[Harvard University]].{{cite web|title=Ingrid Monson|url=http://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/ingrid-monson|website=aaas.fas.hhttps://imonson.scholars.harvard.edu/biocvarvard.edu|publisher=Harvard University|accessdate=3 April 2017|language=en}}


== Education ==
== Education ==
Monson earned a Bachelor of Music from [[New England Conservatory of Music]] and a Bachelor of Arts from the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison|University of Wisconsin-Madison]], where she studied economics. She later earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in musicology from [[New York University]].
Monson earned a Bachelor of Music from [[New England Conservatory of Music]] and a Bachelor of Arts from the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison|University of Wisconsin-Madison]], where she studied economics. She later earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in musicology from [[New York University]].

==Career==

=== At Harvard===
Monson was appointed as the Quincy Jones Professor of African-American Music in 2001.{{cite web|accessdate=April 19, 2026|title=CURRICULUM VITAE: Ingrid T. Monson|publisher=Harvard University}}
Monson served as the chair of Harvard's Department of Music from 2005 to 2008 as well as serving as the Interim Dean of Arts and Humanities from 2010 to 2011.{{cite web|accessdate=April 19, 2026
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Monson is Quincy Jones Professor of African American music at Harvard University|publisher=Harvard University}}
She is currently a full professor of African American Studies.

===Awards===
Monson won the Woody Guthrie Award of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music.

For her 1996 book, ''Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction'', she won the Irving Lowens Book Award of the Society for American Music.


== Reception ==
== Reception ==
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