Overview
Anne Elise Koppes is a third-year PhD student in Musicology with a certificate in Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies at Duke.
Annie's research historicizes the racialized and gendered body and its discursive representations in twentieth-century American popular music, with the blues as a primary interlocutor. She is currently a team leader in the "Archives and Creative Process: Blues Women and Rosetta Records" collective, sponsored by Bass Connections. In the past, she has also been a graduate fellow in Duke University's Black Music and the Soul of America Lab.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music with certificates in Violoncello Pedagogy and French Language, Literature, and Culture from Colorado State University. She is an active singer-songwriter.