Josephine R.B. Wright, Prof. Emerita of Music and Africana Studies (The College of Wooster), holds a B.M. from the University of Missouri-Columbia, a M.M. from the Pius XII Academy (Florence, Italy), a M.A. from Missouri, and a Ph.D. in historical musicology from New York University. An author of over 88 articles and reviews in professional journals on topics related to American music, women in music, folklore, and African American history, she co-authored (with Eileen Southern, Harvard University) two pioneering studies, “African American Traditions in Song, Sermon, Tales, and Dance” (1990) and “Images: Iconography of Music African American Culture, 1770s-1920s” (2000). The first female editor of the refereed journal American Music, she served as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Musicological Society and the Society for American Music, as well as on the Editorial Boards of these two societies and Lever Press. A recipient of a 1999 Distinguished Alumna Award (University of Missouri), and grants from the National Endowment of the Humanities, she served as a Trustee of the National Artistic Directorate of the American Classical Music Hall of Fame and the Museum (Cincinnati). She is a recipient of the Distinguished Service and Lifelong Achievement Awards from the Society for American Music and is an Honorary Member of the American Musicological Society