Ingrid Monson
# Ingrid Monson

Ingrid Monson is Quincy Jones Professor of African-American Music, supported by the Time Warner Endowment, and Professor of African and African American studies at Harvard University.

## Education

Monson earned a Bachelor of Music from New England Conservatory of Music and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied economics. She later earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in musicology from New York University.

## Reception

In February 2022, Monson was one of 38 Harvard faculty to sign a letter to the Harvard Crimson defending Professor John Comaroff, who had been found to have violated the university's sexual and professional conduct policies. The letter defended Comaroff as "an excellent colleague, advisor and committed university citizen" and expressed dismay over his being sanctioned by the university. After students filed a lawsuit with detailed allegations of Comaroff's actions and the university's failure to respond, Monson was one of several signatories to say that she wished to retract her signature.

## Works

* Saying Something: Jazz Improvisation and Interaction (University of Chicago Press, 1996)
* Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call Out to Jazz and Africa (Oxford University Press, 2007)
* ed. African Diaspora: A Musical Perspective (Garland/Routledge, 2000)
