Masters of Music University of Texas at Austin, 1989
Hons-B.Mus (cum laude) University of Stellenbosch, 1983
B. Mus (cum laude) Uninversity of Stellenbosch, 1982
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
Frederick Burkhard Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars, ACLS, 2007
Nadia and Nicholas Nahumck Fellowship, Society for Ethnomusicology, 2006
Jaap Kunst Prize, Society for Ethnomusicology, 0 2005
Thomas Langford Lecture Award, Duke University, 2004
Finalist, ARSC Award for Excellence: Best Research in Recorded Popular Music, for Sound of Africa! Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio, 0 2004
Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Music, Duke University, 2001/02
Rockefeller Fellowship, Institute on Violence, Culture and Survival, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Declined., 2001/02
Rockefeller Fellowship in the Black Performing Arts, Stanford Humanities Center, 2001/02
Rockefeller Resident Fellowship (Gender-Race-Ethnicity: Re-articulating the Local and the Global). Declined., Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University, 2001/02
Carly Hunt Individual Research Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 2000
Charlotte Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 1994/95
Dissertation Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin, 1994/95
Zora Neal Hurston Fellowship, African Humanities Institute, Northwestern University, 1994/95
Doctoral Prestige Scholarship, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 1992/93, renewed 1993-1995
Research Grant, National Science Foundation, 1991/92
Predoctoral Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 1990/91
Charles Seeger Award, Society of Ethnomusicology, 1988/89
Fulbright Scholarship, 1984
Harry Crossley Grant, South Africa, 1984/85, renewed 1986-1991
L. Meintjes. Sound of Africa!: Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio. Duke University Press, January, 2003 .
Articles
T. Porcello, L. Meintjes, A-M Ochoa, D Samuels. "The Reorganization of the Sensory World." Annual Review of Anthropology (2010).
D Samuels, L. Meintjes, A-M Ochoa, T. Porcello. "Soundscapes: Towards a Sounded Anthropology." Annual Review of Anthropology (2010).
L. Meintjes. "Shoot the Sergeant, Shatter the Mountain: The production of masculinity in Zulu Ngoma Song and Dance in post Apartheid South Africa." Ethnomusicology Forum 13.2 (2004): 173-201. Also appears as ”Maten al soldado: música y negociación de conflicto en Sudáfrica” translated by Ana Maria Ochoa Gautier in Revista Transcultural de Música/Transcultural Music Review 10 (2006).
Other
The Word on Music: A Symposium Celebrating Duke University Press, John Hope Franklin Center for International and Interdisciplinary Studies, Sep 9-10, 2005
Co-organized with Kelley Tatro and Joyce Kurpiers.
Music in Conflict and Reconciliation: A Workshop, , Jan 12-13, 2004
Co-organized with Paul Berliner. Hosted by the John Hope Franklin Center for
international and Interdisciplinary Studies, Duke University. Sponsored by the
Arts Committee, Social Sciences Research Council.
