Jessica Bissett Perea

Jessica Bissett Perea is a Dena’ina musician-scholar whose Indigenous-led and Indigeneity-centered work uplifts radical and relational ways of being, knowing, and doing to generate more just futures for Indigenous communities. Her first book Sound Relations: Native Ways of Doing Music History in Alaska (OUP, 2021) won the 2023 Irving Lowens Book Award from SAM, the 2023 International Council for Traditional Music and Dance Book Prize, and the 2023 Ruth Stone Prize from the Society of Ethnomusicology. Jessica currently holds the Frank L. and Catherine D. Doleshy Endowed Professorship in American Indian Studies and adjunct appointments in music history and the Comparative History of Ideas Department at the University of Washington.