Stephanie Espie
Biography
Dr. Stephanie R. Espie (she/her) completed her PhD in Musicology at Florida State University in December 2023. She holds a Master of Music in Ethnomusicology from the University of Florida and a Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Delaware. As a researcher she has presented her research at national and international conferences including the Society for Ethnomusicology, the International Symposium on Festival Culture, and the International PanNotation Steelpan Conference. Her research interests include Caribbean music, music of the Caribbean diaspora, childhood music, world music pedagogy, nationalism, neoliberalism, community network analysis, and race and whiteness. Her dissertation, “The Spirit of Carnival: Entangled Influences in Junior Panorama and Trinidadian Youth Centered Spaces,” highlights the annual Junior Panorama steelband competition and analyzes the nexus of influences at play within youth-oriented spaces. Her article “Playing with a Different Beat: The Whitening of American Steelband” was published in the peer-reviewed journal Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education (2022). She is a recent recipient of the Society for American Music Margery Lowens Dissertation Research Fellowship and the Sigma Alpha Iota Philanthropies, Inc. Doctoral Grant. She has previously taught at Florida State University, and is currently an adjunct instructor at the University of Delaware and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA.
