Welcome to the website for Kevin Fellezs,

a music scholar (and recovering pianist)

interested in the relationship between the social and the aesthetic in popular music

Kevin Fellezs

Music

Director, Center for Jazz Studies


Academic Positions

2019-present             Associate Professor                           Columbia University

2015-16                    Senior Tsunoda Fellow                       Waseda University, Tokyo

2012-18                    Assistant Professor                            Columbia University

2006-11                    Assistant Professor                            University of California, Merced

2004-06                   UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow      University of California, Berkeley 


education                                                                             

2004                        PhD,  History of Consciousness          University of California, Santa Cruz

2000                        MA with Honors, Humanities              San Francisco State University

1998                         BA magna cum laude, Music              San Francisco State University


Kevin Fellezs has been interviewed for articles in print, online, and on video/TV for, among others, The Guardian, Studio 360/Public Radio International, German Public Radio, El FénixDiverse: Issues of Higher Education, the NHK (Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation), Rolling Stone, the Washington Post, WUSA9, The Blues (TV series), and Univision Noticias. He is a featured interviewee in Fred Ho's Last Year  (dir., Steven De Castro, 2013). He has served as a consultant for various news and music programs including Native America Calling and the New Jazz Archive as well as for the music to art exhibitions at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery and the 20 and Odd: The 400 Year Anniversary of 1619 exhibition, curated by Kalia Brooks Nelson, at the LeRoy Neiman Gallery in New York City.


Kevin has given presentations and talks at academic conferences and universities across the United States as well as internationally, including Australia, Brazil, China, the Czech Republic, England, Finland, Germany, Japan, Scotland, and Spain. He has given numerous public talks in venues such as the Museum of the Chinese in America, PayPal NYC/Spotify (as an invited panelist for the event, African Roots to American Charts: An evening celebrating the impact of black music and culture on America), the Obama Hawaiian Africana Museum (as an invited panelist for Coltrane in Hawai'i: Time, Place, & Spirit: The Journey), Scholars on Scene, Book Culture, and the Knox Art Gallery in Harlem. He has also served as an invited moderator for events such as Asian American Musicians Advocating for Social Justice and Racial Equity and as an invited speaker for A Dancer in the Revolution: A Celebration of Howard "Stretch" Johnson.

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