Lisa Nielson
Case Western Reserve University, Music, Faculty Member
- Lisa Nielson is the inaugural Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow and appointed as a Lecturer in Music at Case Western Reserve University. She served as the Director of the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women from 2016-2018, and is currently the Associate Director for the Cleveland Humanities Collaborati... moreLisa Nielson is the inaugural Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow and appointed as a Lecturer in Music at Case Western Reserve University. She served as the Director of the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women from 2016-2018, and is currently the Associate Director for the Cleveland Humanities Collaborative. Her awards include the Richard A. Bloom, M.D. Award for Distinguished Teaching in the SAGES Program (2012 and 2021), the Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2014), the J. Bruce Jackson, MD, Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring (2016), the Faculty Prism Award (2017), and she was a 2016-2017 recipient of a Balzan International Musicology Visitorship. Her book Music and Musicians in the Medieval Islamic World: A Social History was published in 2021 with Bloomsbury Press. She received her PhD in historical musicology from the University of Maine, and has a bachelors and masters degree in cello performance and pedagogy, specializing in baroque performance practices. Currently, she plays electric and upright bass with a blues/rock trio.edit
Program information (including abstracts) for sessions on slavery organized for the Leeds International Medieval Congress 2016
Research Interests: History, Economic History, Gender Studies, Social Sciences, Medieval History, and 21 moreGender History, Medieval Studies, Legal History, Slavery, History of Slavery, Medieval Islam, History of slavery and migration movements, Abolition of Slavery, Medieval Archaeology, Islamic Studies, Medieval Europe, Slave Trade, Social History, Islamic History, Medieval Islamic History, Medieval Slavery, Islamic Law and Slavery, Middle Ages, Ancient Slavery, History of slavery in the Mediterrenean, and Roman Slavery
Sessions and abstracts for papers on slavery to be presented at the Leeds IMC 2016
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A Balzan Musicology Workshop in the framework of the Balzan Programme in Musicology 2013-2017: "Towards a Global History of Music" by Balzan Prizewinner Reinhard Strohm