Tammy L. Kernodle
Tammy L. Kernodle is a musicologist and the current President of the Society for American Music (2019–21). Her academic writing and public intellectual work has highlighted Black women musicians like Mary Lou Williams, Meshell Ndegeocello, Alice Coltrane, and Melba Liston and has considered African American women's role in contemporary gospel music and jazz. Education. Kernodle holds a BM in choral music education and piano from Virginia State University, and an MA and PhD in music history from Ohio State University. Career. Kernodle has been professor of musicology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio since 1997. In  2018 she was awarded the Benjamin Harrison Medallion in recognition of "Outstanding Contribution to the Education of the Nation". In 2019 Kernodle became President of the Society for American Music, a title she will hold through 2021. With Lisa Barg, Dianthe Spencer, and Sherrie Tucker, Kernodle formed the Melba Liston Research Collective whose members work toward "the inclusion of women musicians and analyses of gender in the emerging jazz historiographical directions of 'new' jazz studies". Her book, "Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams", has been reviewed by Sherrie Tucker for "", Chris J. Walker for "JazzTimes , and Edward M. Komara for the Music Library Association's quarterly Notes". Kernodle has contributed to NPR's "Turning the Tables" series (2019) and to the Walker Art Center's digital exhibit "Creative Black Music". She has appeared in several documentaries about the history of jazz, including "The Girls in the Band" (2011), "Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band" (2015), and "" (2019). She has been quoted or interviewed as an expert for "The" "New York Times", NPR's "All Things Considered", and "Marketplace."