Shanna Lorenz Receives Tenure at Occidental College
Congratulations to Shanna Lorenz (PhD, 2007), who was recently promoted to associate professor with tenure at Occidental College. Shanna earned her PhD in ethnomusicology (and also holds a PhD in performance studies from New York University, 2014). Shanna's dissertation at Pitt, entitled "Japanese in the Samba: Japanese Brazilian Musical Citizenship, Racial Consciousness, and Transnational Migration," focused on the musical practices of migrants who circulate between Japan and Brazil. The focus of Shanna's research is the music of transnational migrants in the Americas.