​Who I am?

My name is Melissa Gonzalez and I'm a native New Yorker, ethnomusicologist,  classically-trained vocalist, a dabbler when it comes to the diatonic button accordion and Afro-Cuban percussion. Please feel free to review my curriculum vitae and professional resume.
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​What I do?

I completed my doctorate in Music  at Columbia University (dissertation abstract). My research interests include Latin America, North Africa, and popular music studies, music and nationalism, and the intersection of vocality and gender performativity.
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​What else?

In addition to teaching undergraduate courses at Fordham University, CUNY Hunter College and Montclair State University, I am producer of the Latino Music Series at the Long Island Museum of American Art, History and Carriages, and a digital marketing consultant.