Josephine R.B. Wright

Professor of Black Studies and Music; Chair of Africana Studies

Department/Affiliation: Africana Studies, Music
Phone: 330-263-2044
Office Address: 216 Scheide Music Center
Email: jwright@wooster.edu

Former Editor - American Music, first women appointed editor for this society, first black appointed to such a position by a national musicological organization in the United States - 1994-1997
Former Editor - Music and African-American Culture
Distinguished Alumna Award from the University of Missouri - 1999
Board of Directors of the American Musicological Society, The Society for American Music - member
Pi Kappa Lambda Upsilon Chapter - National Music Honorary
National Artistic Directorate - member
Former Trustee - The American Classical Music Hall of Fame, Museum of Cincinnati
The Clark Fund Award
The National Endowment of the Humanities
The Henry Luce Award - Distinguished Scholarship

The holder of the first endowed chair in Black Studies at The College of Wooster, where she joined the faculty in 1981.
In the summer of 2006, she presented an invited paper at Oxford University.
Is currently an adviser for the revised Grove Dictionary of American Music published by Oxford University Press.
She is an expert in African-American music, American music, women in music, and Western music history.