Matthew D. Morrison, incoming associate professor at Stanford University, has received the PROSE Excellence Award in Humanities from the Association of American Publishers for his book, Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States (University of California Press, 2024).
Since 1976, the Association of American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Awards) have recognized the best professional and scholarly publications from scholars in numerous fields of study. Each year, the association grants four PROSE Excellence Awards in biological and life sciences, humanities, physical sciences and mathematics, and social sciences, respectively, as well as 41 PROSE Category Awards. Dr. Morrison’s Blacksound also received the PROSE Category Award in Music and the Performing Arts.
Dr. Morrison was recently appointed to the faculty at Stanford University, where he will teach as an associate professor in the department of African and African American studies. He comes to Stanford from New York University, where he taught as an associate professor in the Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music. His research focuses on the relationship between racial identity, performance, property, copyright law, and inequities within the history of American popular music and beyond.
A former presidential music scholar at historically Black Morehouse College in Atlanta, Dr. Morrison earned his master’s degree in musicology from the Catholic University of America and his Ph.D. in musicology from Columbia University in New York.
