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Hamilton College

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4.08/20/2025

Fair, constructive, and always motivating.

5.04/30/2025

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About Celeste

Celeste Day Moore is an Associate Professor of History at Hamilton College, having joined the faculty in 2014 as a Visiting Assistant Professor, promoted to Assistant Professor in 2016, and to Associate Professor in 2022. A graduate of Haverford College with a B.A. with honors in History (2003), she received her A.M. (2007) and Ph.D. with distinction in U.S. History (2014) from the University of Chicago. Her research specializes in African-American culture, media, and Black internationalism in the twentieth century. Moore's acclaimed first book, Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France (Duke University Press, 2021), explores how African American music shaped postwar French culture amid decolonization, imperialism, and global liberation struggles. The monograph garnered major awards, including the 2023 Woody Guthrie First Book Award from the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM-US), the 2022 Gilbert Chinard Prize from the Society for French Historical Studies, and the 2022 Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Award for Excellence in Historical Research on Recorded Jazz.