Undergraduate & Graduate Student Positions

Academic Credit

Scope of work: Our work will involve researching Rosetta Reitz’s work and life in the context of the music business and feminisms across the 20th century. We will explore:

• the musical foremothers Reitz highlighted in her work
• feminist readings of the recording industry and its technologies
• how art and archives can amplify storytelling
• copyright issues surrounding music, images, and text
• graphic design and marketing strategies in music and publishing across time and place

Possible outputs include:

• Network analysis of key figures in the music industry in the 1980s, including performers, producers, distributors, photographers, publications & critics/writers
• Recorded & transcribed interviews with members of Rosetta Reitz’s circle
• Expanded Wikipedia entries and other public writing about Reitz and key figures found in her papers
• Public events sharing our work
• Curated essays by scholars and members of the music industry
• Production of high-quality images of archival documents
• Mock-ups of book page designs
• A draft book manuscript

We welcome graduate students and undergraduate students as research team participants for academic credit or as volunteers.

We seek students with interests in art and music history, photography, graphic design, writing, editing, storytelling, legal and business research, the history of race and racism in the United States, feminist studies, queer studies, music, policy and/or technology studies.

Apply now! Send a 250-word statement and CV/resume to lou.brown[at]duke.edu