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Shana L. Redmond is the 2014-2015 Visiting Ella Baker Professor of Black Studies at UCSB and Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She received her combined Ph.D. in African American Studies and American Studies from Yale University. Her research and teaching interests include the African Diaspora, Black political cultures, music and popular culture, 20th century U.S. history and social movements, labor and working-class studies, and critical ethnic studies. Her book, Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora (NYU Press, 2014), examines the sonic politics performed amongst and between organized Afro-diasporic publics in the twentieth century. Her current book project details the performative regimes of aid music. Her work has been published widely in journals and edited collections, including African and Black Diaspora, the Journal of Popular Music Studies, Race & Class, and Black Music Research Journal, as well as the forthcoming, Critical Ethnic Studies: An Anthology, of which she is also an editor. She has written on current events and popular culture for the Feminist Wire, New Blackman blog, and From the Square (NYU Press blog). She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards and serves, as of 2014, as a national committee member for the American Studies Association. In collaboration with her colleagues and students at UCSB she intends to use this year to investigate new strategies of intervention in both her research and social justice work.