Marjorie is a senior instructor in Musicology. After attending a national disciplinary conference and attending a number of sessions on issues of diversity and representation in musicology, Marjorie is overwhelmed and inspired by the ideas shared by colleagues. She reflects on her newly forming knowledge about the underrepresentation of women and people of color in the scholarship of musicology and the erasure of their contributions in the canon of music theory and contemporary musicology.
Marjorie resolves to address these disparities in her own curriculum. After additional self-study and consultation with colleagues, Marjorie revises the learning outcomes and lesson plans of her next course to center on the contributions of women and people of color. Additionally, Marjorie includes a unit on the historical and structural conditions that created and continue to sustain the erasure of women and people of color in musicology.