This is the first time a corporation has ever funded a permanent professorship in African American studies at any American university. The professorship is dedicated to Quincy Jones, 67, musician, composer, executive, and 26 time Grammy award winner.
Endowments of this type are usually valued at around $3 million.
Professor Monson won the Sonneck Society's 1998 Irving Lowens Prize for best book in American music for her 1996 Saying Something, Jazz Improvisation and Interaction.
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