Lori Burns has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
She is at the forefront of international popular music studies. Professor Burns has transformed the field by applying interdisciplinary and intersectional feminist methods, bringing to light crucial diversity, equity, and inclusion issues in music and culture. Her scholarship unveils the complex ways in which music challenges discourses of power and dominant representations of cultural identities, deepening our understanding of popular music expression and demonstrating how music can speak to and for human subjects.