
Eric Schmidt
Academic Division: Arts & Humanities
Academic Degrees
- Ph D, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
- MA, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
- BA, American University
Awards & Honors
- 2024 — ACLS Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies
- 2023 — Postdoctoral Fellowship, West African Research Association
- 2017 — African Libraries Student Paper Prize, Society for Ethnomusicology
- 2016 — Fulbright US Student Fellowship, US Department of State
Publications
Journal Articles
- Schmidt, E.J. (2020). Arid Fidelity, Reluctant Capitalists: Salvage, Curation, and the Circulation of Tuareg Music on Independent Record Labels. Ethnomusicology Forum. Vol: 28, Issue: 3, Page: 260–282. link
Book Chapters
- Schmidt, E.J. (2025). Playing with Class: Honor, Griotisme, and Professional Artists in the Tuareg Music Economy: Music as Cultural Text: Performance Traditions in West Africa and its Diasporas. Palgrave Macmillan.