Joshua Kerobo
Joshua graduated with degrees in International Studies and Music from The American University in Washington DC (AU). While at AU, Joshua worked as a Site Associate with Kid Power Inc., an NGO that hosts after-school programs for primary school students of the Washington DC Public School system. He was heavily involved at AU, serving as the Community Service Chair of the African Students Organization, President of ME2 (a group dedicated to the uplift of Black men at the university level), Chapter President and Secretary of the Beta Beta Theta Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. (a historically Black fraternity), and as the NPHC delegate to the university's Sexual Assault Working Group. Joshua is a Moore Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (MURAP) scholar at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, completing a research project on Muslim subjectivity and music that won the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology's Lorna McDaniel Prize for best undergraduate paper ("’Pleasing Allah’ while ‘Obsessed with Frank Ocean”: Negotiations of Music and Islam in the West”.) Joshua has since continued his studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (UM), pursuing his PhD in Ethnomusicology. Joshua currently teaches Musicology 139 and 140 at UM, also serving in the Forum Committee of UM's Society for Music Research. His work "Less than 2%: Countering Western Misrepresentation of Muslims through Ethnomusicological Discussions of Music and Muslim Subjectivity in the Postmodern West" was recently published in the Society for Ethnomusicology Student News's 17.1 "Music and Faith" Issue (Spring/Summer 2021).