Kay Kaufman Shelemay, G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, is an ethnomusicologist who has carried out fieldwork in Ethiopia and with Ethiopians in the United States. She has published numerous books and articles on Ethiopian music, including the award-winning Music, Ritual, and Falasha History (Michigan State U, 1986/1989) and (co-edited with Peter Jeffery) the three-volume Ethiopian Christian Liturgical Chant: An Anthology (A-R Editions, 1994–1997). A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the 2007–2008 Chair for Modern Culture at the Library of Congress’s John W. Kluge Center, she has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.