Castle of our Skins Collaborators
Principal Investigator
Lincoln College | Faculty of Music
Dr Samantha Ege is the Lord Crewe Junior Research Fellow in Music at Lincoln College. In 2019, she received the Society for American Music's Eileen Southern Fellowship and a Newberry Library Short-Term Residential Fellowship for her work on women's contributions to concert life in interwar Chicago. She is the co-editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Florence B. Price and co-author of Price (Master Musicians Series, Oxford University Press). Her latest album is the critically acclaimed Fantasie Nègre: The Piano Music of Florence Price.
Ashleigh Gordon
Artistic/Executive Director | Musician
Described as a “charismatic and captivating performer,” Ashleigh Gordon has recorded with Switzerland's Ensemble Proton and Germany's Ensemble Modern; performed with Grammy-award winning BMOP and A Far Cry; and appeared at the prestigious BBC Proms Festival with the Chineke! Orchestra. Comfortable on an international stage, she has performed in the Royal Albert and Royal Festival Halls (London), Konzerthaus Berlin and Oper Frankfurt (Germany), Gare du Nord and Dampfzentrale Bern (Switzerland) Centre Pompidou (Paris), and the Lee Hysan Concert Hall (Hong Kong).
Castle of our Skins Quartet
Gabriela Diaz (violin)
Mina Lavcheva (violin)
Ashleigh Gordon (viola)
Francesca McNeeley (cello)
Professor Brenda E. Stevenson, Professor Jane Garnett, Dr. Pelagia Goulimari. "Safika" comprises an Intersectional Humanities panel discussion and Q&A on music, migration, and cultural memory, relating to Black people in South Africa, the US, and the UK. Moderated by Professor Brenda E. Stevenson (the incoming Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair of Women's History), this event converges with the Intersectional Humanities' goal to engage "the complex interaction and diverse markers of identity, categorization and self-understanding" within the human experience (as Dr. Pelagia Goulimari puts it).
