Thomas Brothers

Office Hours:

Tuesdays, 10 a.m. - 12 noon

Education

• PhD University of California, Berkeley, 1991
• M.A. University of California at Berkeley, 1982
• B.A. University of Pennsylvania, 1979

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

• Visiting Artist Award ($12,000), Provost and Council of the Arts, Duke University, January, 2010
• Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2009-2010, 2009-2010
• Fellow at the National Humanities Center, 2003
• Fellow at the John Hope Franklin Institute, Duke University, 2001-2002
• Fellow at Harvard's Villa I Tatti, Research Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy, 1999 - 2000
• Junior Faculty Research Leave, Duke University, Fall 1994
• "AMS 50" Dissertation Fellow, 1989 - 1990
• Gabriel Charlebois Scholarship, University of California at Berkeley, 1988
• Passed Comprehensive Exams for Ph.D. with Distinction, University of California at Berkeley, 1988
• Alfred Hertz Memorial Fellowship, 1987
• Alfred Hertz Memorial Fellowship, 1980

Teaching (Fall 2012):

• Music 89s.03, First-year seminar (top) Synopsis

  Biddle 069, F 10:05 AM-12:35 PM

• Music 552.01, Music renaissance (top) Synopsis

  Biddle 069, Th 03:20 PM-05:50 PM

• Ls 770.73, Selected topics Synopsis

  Biddle 069, W 06:15 PM-08:45 PM

Recent Professional Work:

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• T. Brothers. "Gladly Learn and Gladly Teach." Confluence: The Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies xv.1 (2009).  [author's comments]
• T. Brothers. "Blues et Jazz." La Revue du Jazz Authentique Oct 2008; Nov 2008.574-575 (2008): 8-11; 10-12.

• T. Brothers. "“Who’s On First, What’s Second, and Where Did They Come From?: The Social-Musical Textures of Early Jazz”." Early Twentieth-Century Brass Idioms: Art, Jazz and Other Popular Traditions. Edited by Howard Weiner. Scarecrow Press, Studies in Jazz no. 58 2008.

•  Review of How Low Can You Go: Anthology of the String Bass by Dick Spottswood and Steven Ledbetter. Journal of the Society for American Music 2:1 (February, 2008): 119-121.
•  All of Me: The Complete Discography of Louis Armstrong by Jos Willems. ASRC Journal 2:1 (February, 2007): 119-121.