(M.A, African American Studies, Columbia University; Certificate of Graduate Study, Musicology, Duke University; B.A. African American Studies, high honors, Oberlin College; B.M. Voice Performance, Oberlin Conservatory of Music). Marti's research focuses on singing, race and repertoire in the United States. Her current ethnographic work investigates how Japanese Americans construct a black vocal aesthetic through singing spirituals in Harlem. Marti won the Langston Hughes Thesis Award for the Humanities for her M.A. thesis titled "Concert Spirituals' Minstrel Inheritance." She has served as adjunct faculty at the Seton Hall University Department of Art and Music. Her publications include entries in the African American National Biography (Oxford University Press), the Encyclopedia of African American Music (Greenwood Press), Souls Journal (Taylor and Francis) and the Mellon Minority Undergraduate Research Journal.