Ellie Hisama

Ellie Hisama
TitleDean, faculty of music, professor of music
Academic background
Alma materQueens College, City University of New York
ThesisGender, Politics, and Modernist Music: Analyses of Five Compositions by Ruth Crawford (1901-1953) and Marion Bauer (1887-1955) (1996)
Academic work
DisciplineMusic theorist
Sub-disciplineGender, Sexuality, and Race in Music
InstitutionsCUNY - Brooklyn
Columbia University
University of Toronto

Ellie Hisama is a Japanese-American music theorist who is dean of the faculty of music and a professor of music at the University of Toronto. Hisama's work focuses on issues of gender, race, sexuality, and the sociology of music.