I’m an ethnomusicologist based in Victoria, BC, Canada. My research focuses on the evolution of oppositional music in Colombia in the late twentieth century amidst the country’s protracted civil conflict. Currently, I’m working on a book on this topic for the University of Michigan Press’s Music and Social Justice series, titled From Protest Song to Social Song: Music and Resistance in Colombia through Fifty Years of Conflict.

I’m proud to share that my research on Colombian music has earned some recognition. My dissertation (2017) won the Barry S. Brook Award from the City University of New York’s Graduate Center, and an article I wrote in 2020 received an honorable mention for the Samuel Claro Valdés award for Latin American Musicology. Among other sources, my academic research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (US) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

In addition to my research activities, I have over seven years of experience teaching at the university level. I have been a visiting professor at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, and at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA.

I can be reached at: jkatzrosene [AT] gradcenter.cuny.edu

[Last updated January 2022]

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