Eric Schmidt won African Libraries Student Paper Prize from the African Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology

Assistant Director of the ASC, Dr. Eric Schmidt, won the African Libraries Student Paper Prize from the African Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology for the 2017 paper, “Making Purple Rain in the Sahara: Sahel Sounds and the Telling of a ‘Universal Story’ in a Particular Place.” Dr. Schmidt will deliver an updated and expanded talk on this research for the Walter Rodney Lecture Series in February.