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Ellie Hisama, professor and dean of the Faculty of Music, has been named an honorary member of the . 

Honorary members are selected on the basis of their extraordinary contributions to the society and to the study and teaching of music.

Hisama, who is also a professor emerita at Columbia University, was recognized for her contributions to musicology, her distinguished teaching career and her commitment to diversity, inclusion and ethics. "Equally at home in the fields of music theory and musicology, Hisama’s writings on the role of gender, sexuality and race in musical modernity cover subjects ranging from 20th-century modernists to hip hop," the American Musicological Society noted in its citation.

The author of Gendering Musical Modernism and many articles in an array of publications, Hisama has collaborated with numerous regional and international bodies dedicated to anti-racist agendas in the arts and in the academy.