Ruby Erickson was awarded the AADMS (African and African Diasporic Music Section) African Diaspora Student Paper Prize for her 2023 Society for Ethnomusicology presentation, “'My Grandparents are Embracing Me': Transmission, Performance, and Vocal Collaging in Cabo Verdean New England.”
Ruby Erickson's scholarly interests include music, migration, and diaspora; musics of the Black Atlantic; economic ethnomusicology; voice studies; and engaged research methods. Her current research centers on the music-making communities of Cape Verdean Americans in New England, and includes a collaborative podcasting project, Sounds from the Eleventh Star. You can learn more about Ruby at her website.