Charrise Barron
Harvard University
Charrise Barron is an assistant professor in the Department of Music at Harvard University. She is an ethnomusicologist and historian of African American religious culture. Her current book project The Platinum Age of Gospel explores contemporary gospel music and illuminates the marked shifts away from previous eras of gospel performance and culture which have defined
the last thirty years of the genre. She is also developing a manuscript examining intersections of black sacred music and protest in the Black Lives Matter movement. Dr. Barron earned her PhD in African and African American Studies, with a secondary field of study in ethnomusicology, from Harvard University. She holds a Master of Divinity summa cum laude from Yale Divinity School, where she was also an active student in the Institute of Sacred Music (ISM). Dr. Barron is a Forum for Theological Exploration (FTE) Doctoral Fellowship alumna and member of the Harvard University Society of Horizons Scholars.
