Executive Committee
PRESIDENT
Alexandra Boutros is an associate professor in the Department of Communication and Cultural Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo). Her current research focuses on Canadian popular music with a particular focus on Canadian hip hop, it's role in public discourses, and its intersection with conceptualizations of the Black diaspora. Recent work in this field includes "The Impossibility of Being Drake: Or What it Means to be a Successful (Black) Canadian Rapper," (2020) in the inaugural issue of Global Hip Hop Studies and "Sounds Like Haiti: Haiti as Muse in Canadian Popular Music," (2021) in Popular Music and Society.
CONFERENCE/ELECTIONS COORDINATOR
Martin Lussier is professor of communication studies at UQAM. His research focuses on popular music and the practices of local cultural organizations that articulate politics, industries, artists, music genres, audiences and workers. Member of the laboratory Culture Populaire, connaissances et critique (CPCC) as well as the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la communication, l’information et la société (CRICIS), he published “Les musiques émergentes. Le devenir-ensemble” (Éditions Nota-Bene), as well as “L’essor de la vie culturelle au XXIe siècle. Perspectives France-Québec” (Presses de l’Université de Montréal) with M. Paquin, J.-M. Lafortune and M. Lemonchois. With Anouk Bélanger, he is the co-director of Atelier de chronotopies urbaines, a mobile and collaborative research lab about popular culture.
TREASURER
Alyssa Woods is a popular music scholar whose work intersects the areas of music theory, gender and sexuality studies, critical race studies, and religious discourse in hip-hop music and culture. Dr. Woods holds the position of Assistant Professor in the School of Fine Art and Music at the University of Guelph, where she is also a member of the research team and Site Coordinator for the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. Her research involves interdisciplinary approaches to music-analytic and socio-cultural analysis with recent work focusing on the concept of mythmaking, genealogy, and succession in hip-hop. She is currently working on a book length project, entitled Temptation and the God Flow: Sound and Signification in Pre- and Post-Conversion Hip-hop.
COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR
Louise Concepcion is a PhD Musicology student at the University of Alberta. Her research interests include music education and accessibility for marginalized communities, public policy and popular music in Canada.
AWARDS COORDINATOR
Open Position
STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE
Jasmine Proctor is a PhD candidate in Media Studies at Western University’s Faculty of Information and Media Studies. Her research explores how queer pop music fan communities engage with gender and sexuality through transcultural networked labour across digital platforms. Jasmine is particularly interested in how queer K-pop fans construct affective, community-driven transcultural spaces online, and how platform affordances shape visibility, intimacy, and identity formation. More broadly, they are interested in transcultural fandom, digital (sub)cultures, queer theory, and affective economies.