Genevieve Allotey-Pappoe is an Assistant Professor of Music at Brown University. She recently completed her PhD in the Department of Music at Princeton University. Genevieve has an MPhil in Ethnomusicology and a BA in Music and Sociology from the University of Ghana Her main research interests include music of Africa and the Black diaspora. Her research is anchored by an exploration of the multiple remediations of Black music as it moves between geographical locations, offline and online communities, and across digital platforms. Her other research interests include sound studies, the music industry, music and digital technology, and the creative economy.  She has published in the Journal for Popular Music Studies and has a forthcoming publication in the British Forum for Ethnomusicology.

Between 2021 and 2022, she was a visiting graduate fellow at the Humanities Branch of the Spanish National Research Council in Barcelona (IMF-CSIC). In 2023, she was awarded the Eugene K Wolf research grant by the American Musicological Society for her dissertation "Between Acousmatic Blackness and Blacksound: The Cultural Politics of Black Music in Spain"

While at Princeton, Genevieve was a GradFutures Social Impact Fellow at the Center for Music Ecosystems in 2023 working on the Music Policy Resilience Network project

She was also a Social Impact Fellow at the Newark Symphony Hall in Fall 2022. Prior to her social impact fellowships, she was a University Administrative Fellow with GradFUTURES, where she helped establish the strategy for the GradFUTURES Podcast. Using the skills that she developed there, from project management to digital storytelling, she launched her own podcast, Black Music Nomad, which explores Black music in spaces beyond the U.S. Genevieve is also a composer (www.genevieveap.com)

On Social Impact Fellowships & the International Student Experience:

“My Social Impact Fellowships were one of the best experiences during my time at Princeton. I learned so much from my mentors about how to apply research and transform results into strategies and policies. My work at the Center for Music Ecosystems gave me the opportunity to develop my applied research, teamwork, and collaboration skills. As an international student, it is quite difficult to have opportunities that allow me to gain this type of off-campus experience and I am grateful to the GradFUTURES team for this great initiative that advances the professional development of graduate students.”

On her UAF with GradFUTURES:

"I was excited to have worked on new media initiatives as part of the GradFUTURES program. In the 21st century, digital technology has transformed the circulation of information and knowledge both spatially and temporally. This project was a great avenue to explore the various ways graduate students can use new media in their work. This was also a great initiative for those students who have the desire to be public intellectuals.”