Laura Beth Schnitker
[/fusion_text][fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_spacing=”” rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_color=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=””]Special Collections & University Archives, University of Maryland Libraries
[/fusion_text][fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_spacing=”” rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_color=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=””]Laura Beth Schnitker is an audiovisual archivist and curator of the broadcast archives in Special Collections & University Archives (SCUA) in the University of Maryland Libraries. She is also a lecturer in UMD’s School of Music, and hosts a weekly radio show on campus station WMUC. Since 2015, she has been serving as co-chair (with Jennifer Waits) of the Caucus on College, Community and Educational Radio for the Radio Preservation Task Force.
Dr. Schnitker holds a BM in clarinet performance from the University of Michigan, an MA in ethnomusicology from Tufts University and a PhD in ethnomusicology from the University of Maryland. Her areas of research include radio history, Western art music, and independence in American popular music.
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