Biographical Note
Roxane Connick Carlisle has served as President of the Institute for Development of Education through the Arts (1987-1990), worked as Special Advisor to the President on the Integration of Women in Development, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA; 1976-1983), and taught anthropology at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada (1970-1972), in addition to other roles in sponsored travel and research (including a Fulbright Fellowship, 1962-1963). She did fieldwork in 1963 and 1967 in various areas of the Sudan, before South Sudan gained its independence, and documented various aspects of cultural traditions for several tribes. She has worked for the Canadian International Development Agency, in part to provide research and guidance towards programs that improve the welfare of women in developing countries. As an ethnomusicologist and educator, she has published works that support the inclusion of world music in universities. Her radio program, Listen to the World was an early introduction to world music for a general audience. Carlisle's career has been, in its many aspects, a means by which traditions on the verge of change are documented, maintained (in memory if not in practice), and shared with various audiences.