Eileen M. Hayes, Assistant ProfessorEileen M. Hayes, Assistant Professor
Eileen M. Hayes joined the College of Music faculty as an assistant professor of ethnomusicology in fall 2002. She received a bachelor's degree in music history from Temple University, a master's in folklore/ethnomusicology from Indiana University and a doctorate in ethnomusicology from the University of Washington.
Hayes has presented papers at conferences of the Society for Ethnomusicology, the College Music Society, and Feminist Theory and Music. Publications include a Spring/Summer 2004 film review in Ethnomusicology and a chapter concerning black women and women-identified music in Maultsby and Burnim's African American Music in Cultural Perspective (forthcoming Routledge Press). Dr. Hayes is co-editor of the Anthology of African American Women Musicians (forthcoming, University of Illinois Press).
The recipient of a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Hayes will spend the 2004-2005 academic year in residence at the University of California/Riverside where she will continue writing her book, Songs in Black and Lavender: Race and the Politics of Sexual Identity in Women-identified Music.
Her research interests include race and American popular culture, African American music, gender and sexualities theory, and music and nationalism. Hayes co-chairs the Sexualities Taskforce of the Society for Ethnomusicology. In Spring 2002 she was elected to the board of the College Music Society as the representative for ethnomusicology. Hayes is the founding chair of the College of Music's Advisory Council on Diversity, a committee of faculty and students devoted to heightening awareness of multiculturalism and music within the College, across campus, and throughout the metroplex. During her tenure, the Council was awarded the Alton Thibodeaux Leadership in Diversity Award by UNT's Student Government Association.