Join author Gloria J. Browne-Marshall in conversation with Ambre Dromgolle at BSB.

Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is an EMMY award-winning writer, an educator, a legal advocate, and a playwright. She is a professor of Constitutional Law and African Studies at John Jay College (CUNY), was a Resident Fellow at the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School, as well as a Visiting Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School. She won the 2024 American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award. Her books include She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power, The Voting Rights War, and Race, Law, and American Society.

Ambre Dromgoole is an experienced music scholar, artist, curator, and consultant who specializes in subjects relating to music, religion, race, gender, performance, and popular culture all of which she brings to her role as Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Music at Cornell University. Dr. Dromgoole received her B.A. in Religion and Musical Studies from Oberlin College and Conservatory, her M.A. from Yale Divinity School and Institute of Sacred Music, and PhD from Yale University. She has presented work for the Association of Black Women Historians, Society for Ethnomusicology, American Studies Association, and the American Academy of Religion to name a few. She has previously held fellowships with the Ford Foundation, Louisville Institute, Center for Lived Religion in the Digital Age at St. Louis University, the Sacred Writes project, and the Center for Material and Visual Cultures of Religion at Yale University. Her current book project There’s a Heaven Somewhere: A Sonic History of Black Womanhood documents the twentieth century history of itinerant women gospel musicians as a collective, paying particular attention to their musical training as girls in Afro- Protestant contexts as well as their formation in the entertainment industry.