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  Financial Support

  Song in the Sumatran Highlands has been made possible through the following sources of financial support. 
  • Summer Stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): www.neh.gov. June-July 2020. 
  • Oberlin College
    • Research Status (A year of leave from teaching to work on research): AY2020-2021 and AY2010-2011.
    • Powers Travel Grant for research in Indonesia: 2010, 2015, 2016, 2019.
  • International Dissertation Research Fellowship from Social Science Research Council. 2003-2004. 
  • Presser Music Award for Graduate Students, Theodore Presser Foundation, for dissertation research. 2003-2004. 
  • Darmasiswa, Department of Education and Culture, Indonesia. 1998-1999. Scholarship to study at Akademi Seni Karawitan Indonesia, Padang Panjang [College of Indonesian Arts]. 
  • Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in Songs in the Sumatran Highlands do not necessarily represent those of any of the organizations and institutions named above. 

  Individuals who contributed media to the site

  • Philip Yampolsky, whose recording of saluang inspired this research and project.
  • Jan Miyake, Associate Professor of Music Theory, and co-leader with Jennifer Fraser of 2014 Winter Term trip to Indonesia.
  • Peter S. Bates, Jennifer's step-father, who visited West Sumatra with her mother in 1999.
  • Saiful Hadi, Jennifer's collaborator, who took many photos of Jennifer in the field, along with some video. 
  • Suzanne Bernsten, who was a Volunteer in Asia in Padang, from 1997-1999, and later met Jennifer during grad school. 

  Individuals who directly assisted in some other way

  For conversations and support in the field

  • All the performers and pagurau represented in these pages
  • Pak Asril
  • Pak Halim
  • Pak Amran

  For organizational assistance or generally supporting the project

  • Zola Abernathy Barnes, who was my research assistant in Summer 2017.
  • Jeanne Rosecrans, who helped formulate a database.
  • Pamela Snyder, for her support with grant applications.
  • Maria Mendonca, who inspired engagement with digital ethnography & wrote letters of support.
  • Zoe Sherinian, who is a mentor in engaged ethnomusicology and wrote letters of support.
  • Sarah Weiss, who was my undergraduate mentor and wrote letters of support.
  • Jeremy Wallach, who is a mentor in Indonesian musical studies and wrote letters of support.
  • Jennifer Kyker, for early and ongoing conversations around Digital Humanities.
  • and the many colleagues, friends, family, and students for ongoing conversations about ethnography and public-facing work.