Susan Thomas
University of Georgia

Susan Thomas is Associate Professor of Musicology and Women’s Studies at the University of Georgia.  She is author of Cuban Zarzuela: Performing Race and Gender on Havana’s Lyric Stage (University of Illinois Press, 2009) as well as many book chapters and journal articles.  She is the recipient of the Robert M. Stevenson award from the American Musicological Society and the Pauline Alderman award from the International Alliance for Women in Music and has held multiple research fellowships including the Santander Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University and the Greenleaf Visiting Scholar at the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University.