Virginia L. Danielson ’71 was presented with the Lucia R. Briggs Distinguished Achievement Award.Virginia Danielson is curator of the Archive of World Music and the Richard F. French Librarian at Harvard's Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library. After earning a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology at the University of Illinois, she began her library career as an archivist in the UI ethnomusicology archives and a cataloging assistant in the music library. Pursuing a scholarly interest in music of the Middle East, she spent three years in the mid-1980s living in Egypt and is the author of an award-winning biography of Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum as well as one of the first biographies of a Middle Eastern woman musician.
Lawrence Today magazine, Fall 2006
