# Jordan Brown Dudley Co-op Resident Tutor Dudley Culture and Community Tutor PhD Candidate in Ethnomusicology, Secondary Field in African and African American Studies ![Jordan Brown](/sites/g/files/omnuum4956/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/2025-08/2025%20headshot.jpeg?itok=6iUJmOwH) location\_on 1705 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge MA email laptop\_windows [Professional Website](https://www.jordanrbrown.com) laptop\_windows [Page on Department of Music Website](https://music.fas.harvard.edu/people/graduate-students/jordan-brown/) Jordan R. Brown, M.M., M.A. (she/her) is a doctoral candidate in ethnomusicology and Presidential Scholar at Harvard University with a secondary field in African and African American Studies. She is currently chair of Harvard University’s Graduate Music Forum, co-chair of Project Spectrum, and a UNESCO Youth Ambassador for Peace and Intercultural Dialogue. Brown’s dissertation, tentatively titled “The Black Alternative: A Cultural and Musical Phenomenon” uses Black politics, Black feminist theory, and “quare” theory to investigate the word “alternative” as it is used on genres commercially coded as “Black,” specifically alternative R&B and alternative hip-hop. Her work will be supported by the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute, where she will serve as the Dorothy Porter Fellow during the 2025–2026 academic year. She identifies as a performer-scholar and intends to continue bridging the two practices in her future work. - ## People Roles [Co-op Tutors](/people-roles/co-op-tutors) [Dudley Tutors](/people-roles/dudley-tutors)