Elliott H. Powell

Elliott H. Powell is Beverly and Richard Fink Professor in Liberal Arts and Associate Professor of American Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is an interdisciplinary scholar of US popular music, race, sexuality, and politics. And he received his PhD in American Studies from New York University and BA in History from the University of Chicago. Prior to joining the University of Minnesota, he was a postdoctoral fellow and faculty associate at the Frederick Douglas Institute for African and African-American Studies and the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Rochester, respectively. Elliott has been the recipient of several national fellowships and awards from the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, Ford Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the American Musicological Society, and the International Association for the Study of Popular Music.