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Laura Donnelly teaches World Music courses in the Department of Music at Rowan University. She received her Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2016, with her dissertation, titled, “‘Pwofité Tét Ou’ (Avail Yourself): The Minoritarian Politics of Haitian Music in Paris.” Prior to working at Rowan, she taught at Rutgers University in the Mason Gross School for the Performing Arts and in the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Music.

Dr. Donnelly’s research examines the intersection of popular and traditional music of the Caribbean, transnationalism, and postcolonial studies, with publications in Space and Culture and a variety of humanities, social science, and music journals. She has presented research at the annual meetings for the Society of Ethnomusicology and Caribbean Studies Association, and given an invited lecture for the Rutgers University Musicological Society (RUMS).