November 25 2007, 12:18 AM

Michelle Habell-Pallan
Associate Professor of Women Studies
Adjunct Professor of Music

Michelle Habell-Pallan received her Ph.D. in Literature and Cultural Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is author of Loca Motion: The Travels of Chicana and Latina Popular Culture (NYU Press, 2005) and co-editor of Latina/o Popular Culture (NYU Press, 2002). In support of her innovative research and writing on the politics of representation and cultural politics of "independent" popular culture, performance art, spoken word, and music, she received a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Research Award, as well as a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Research Award. Her in-progress manuscript, Beat Migration: Chicano/a Roots/Routes of American Pop Music was recently granted an Associate Professor Research Institute Award by the UW Simpson Center for the Humanities. In addition, she serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Latina Studies.

Habell-Pallan's recent public scholarship include American Sabor: U.S. Latinos Shaping Popular Music, a collaboration of the UW School of Music, UW Department of Women Studies, UW Simpson Center for the Humanities, and the Experience Music Project. She serves as Guest Curator for American Sabor, which opened in October 2007 at the Experience Music Project in Seattle and will continue until September 2008.

Habell-Pallan teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in women of color feminist theory and methodology, cultural studies and feminism in the Americas, "racialization, gender, and sexuality" in rock criticism, Chicano/a Theater, social movements and popular culture, the politics of pop music.

She is organizer of the Women Who Rock Research Project. She advises the graduate research and writing group Women Who Rock.