Rashida K. Braggs is Chair and the Amos Lawrence Professor of Africana Studies at Williams College. Her book Jazz Diasporas: Race, Music and Migration in Post-World War II Paris investigates the migratory experiences of African American jazz musicians in 1946-1963 Paris. Her work has also been published in such journals as The Journal of Popular Music, Women & Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture and Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International. Dr. Braggs is a scholar-performer who acts, dances, sings, composes music and performs spoken word. Her performances have been supported by Jacob’s Pillow, the United Solo Theatre Festival and other venues. She is currently working on an innovative book-performance that analyzes her ethnographic and archival research on Black women jazz performers’ migrations to Paris from 1969 to present-day and expresses it via her original solo-embodied performance.