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Rachel Elizabeth Cowgill is a Professor in Music and Music Director of the HRC at the University of York's Faculty of Arts and Humanities. She also serves as Vice Chancellor's Office Associate Dean. Her research focuses on digital humanities, cultural heritage, and Victorian/Edwardian music performance contexts, with notable projects including the Willow Community Digital Archive and studies on jazz in Windrush-era London. She has secured major grants including a British Academy-funded project on race, gender, and jazz.
Her work bridges academia and public engagement through initiatives like the Ballads of York project with York Minster Library. Awards include Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society (2017) and multiple visiting fellowships at prestigious institutions. She actively mentors underrepresented PhD students and leads collaborative research on topics ranging from police minstrels in Victorian Britain to classical music ecology in urban spaces.
Recent activities include keynote talks on Victorian bandstands and jazz history, along with organizing international conferences like the 2024 International Association for Music Libraries Congress. Her datasets and publications (70+ outputs) reflect interdisciplinary approaches to music's societal impacts.
