Aleysia Whitmore (Ph.D '14) was just awarded a 2018/2019 EURIAS research fellowship to conduct research on cultural policy and world music at the IMéRA research institute in Marseille, France.

Alesyia is an Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Denver. Her research focuses on the world music industry, globalization, and cultural policy and she teaches popular music, world music, and classical music courses. She is also finishing a book that examines West African and Cuban musics in the world music industry. Aleysia holds a BMus from the University of Toronto and AM and PhD degrees in ethnomusicology from Brown University. She has taught at Brown University, Boston College, the University of Miami, and the University of Colorado Denver.