Sophia Enriquez awarded Wilma Dykeman “Faces of Appalachia” Postdoctoral Fellowship

Sophia Enriquez

The "Faces of Appalachia" fellowship is awarded by the Appalachian Studies Association to support scholarship on gender and race in Appalachia. Professor Enriquez plans to use the fellowship to support her archival research in the Farm Security Administration Archives at The Library of Congress, as well as travel to Mexico for the Hummingbird Music Festival in Fall 2022. The Hummingbird Music Project facilitates artists exchange between Mexican folk musicians in Michoacán and bluegrass musicians in Appalachia. Enriquez says, "My archival and ethnographic work inform my current book project, Canciones de Los Apalaches: Latinx music, migration, and belonging in Appalachia."

Assistant Professor Sophia Enriquez joined the Duke Music faculty in Fall 2021 after earning her PhD in ethnomusicology at The Ohio State University, where she also completed graduate certificates in folklore and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality studies. A scholar who explores the intersection of Latinx and Appalachian cultures, she is also a performer of American folk musics with a deep curiosity about the musical spaces we collectively inhabit.

Sophia Enriquez is currently teaching Music of Appalachia (MUSIC 290S-01) and Borderlands, Musical Crossings (MUSIC 190S-05/LSGS 290S-05). In Fall 2022, she will teach Latinx Music Cultures (MUSIC 237/LSGS 337).