Research Awards: Susan Thomas

Susan Thomas, Assistant Professor of Music and Women's Studies, has been awarded a Center for Humanities and Arts Junior Faculty Summer Fellowship. The CHA Research Fellowship Program supports University of Georgia faculty engaged in humanities research or artistic creation or performance by facilitating release time from teaching.

The Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational Study of the Americas is a weeklong institute funded by the Latin American centers at Yale, Duke, Arizona, and the Hispanic American Historical Review.  The program brings together Canadian, US, and Latin American junior and senior faculty members and graduate students to create an interdisciplinary dialogue on issues of globalization, migration, and transnational cultural exchange.

Dr. Thomas received her Ph.D. in musicology from Brandeis University. Her dissertation, entitled, "Lo más feminino de los géneros: Gender, Race, and Representation in the cuban zarzuela, 1927-1944," examines how the light opera tradition in Cuba participated in the construction of social norms at a time when the island was undergoing massive political, economic, and cultural change. Dr. Thomas' work is interdisciplinary in nature, reflecting her diverse training; she has Master's degrees in women's studies, ethnomusicology, and vocal performance.