Eileen Southern

Southern, Eileen Jackson (1920- )

African-American musicologist; she received a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Chicago (1940, 1941) and studied with Gustave Reese at New York University, where she completed her Ph.D. in 1961. She taught at Harvard University from 1976 and is currently retired and living in St. Albans, New York.