Shana L. Redmond

Shana L. Redmond is a Grammy-nominated creator, writer, and scholar of race, culture, and power. She is the author of two acclaimed books: Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora (NYU Press, 2014) and the multi-award winning Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson (Duke University Press, 2020). A 2023 Guggenheim fellow, her current project is a forensic listening to Black life before mourning. She is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University in New York City where she tends the open collaborative, The Radio in the Orchard.