For musicological writing, publications, and ongoing scholarly inquiries, please visit the “Research” tab. To explore her original music and multimedia work as a singer-songwriter, please visit “Anneek.”

Anne Elise (Annie) Koppes is a PhD candidate in Musicology with a certificate in Feminist Studies at Duke University. Her research traces the afterlives of vaudeville blues throughout twentieth-century America, examining how racial capitalism and cultural memory shape the conditions through which women’s blues have been recorded, circulated, celebrated, and constrained. Her work follows these histories from the early race records industry into the blues revival in psychedelic rock, and into later feminist interventions that challenge the exclusions and distortions within blues discourse. Across her scholarship, she brings together feminist musicology, archival methodologies, and cultural theory to foreground the labor, craft, and legacy of artists too often sidelined in the canon.

Annie currently serves as the assistant editor for Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture, where she supports the publication of innovative research at the intersection of sound, gender, and power. Her collaborative work includes contributions to the “Archives and Creative Process: Blues Women and Rosetta Records” project, sponsored by Bass Connections, which bridges scholarly research with creative production and archival access. She has also been a graduate fellow in Duke University’s Black Music and the Soul of America Lab, a community focused on the histories and futures of Black sonic expression.

Beyond her academic work, Annie is an active singer-songwriter whose music reflects a deep investment in the art of storytelling, embodiment, and acoustics as a site of connection. Through her project Anneek, she continues to write, record, and perform original work informed by the same curiosity and care that drive her scholarship.

She holds a Master of Arts from Duke University and a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Colorado State University, where she also completed certificates in Violoncello Pedagogy and French.

Updated October 2025.