Author Biography
Marcia Ostashewski is a scholar, musician, teacher, and administrator with a decades long career leading research through a commitment to relationship building, social justice, anti-racism, reconciliation, and decolonization. She is the Founding Director of the Centre for Sound Communities, where she works with diverse artists, scholars, and traditional knowledge holders to create new knowledge and foster positive change on both an institutional and local level. She also devises and co-produces digital media projects that address community issues and social challenges, including the “Sound Communities” initiatives done in cooperation with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. In 2024, her work was recognized with a SSHRC Impact Connection Award. Co-authored publications have garnered the 2020 International Council for Traditional Music Article Prize and the Society for Ethnomusicology’s 2021 Helen Roberts Prize.
