John Lee
Manager, Ethnomusicology & Musicology Departments
John Ho-Joon Lee joined The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music as the MSO of the ethnomusicology and musicology departments in 2018. Lee began working at UCLA in 2011 at the career center and most recently served as the operations manager and staff personnel for UCLA College, office of the deans. Before his career at UCLA, he was a founder/partner of a web design company for 11 years.
John Ho-Joon Lee received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology. He enjoys spending time with his family and photographing his two young children during his spare time.
Donna Armstrong
Assistant to the Chair - Ethnomusicology
Münir Beken
Associate Professor - Ethnomusicology (World Music Theory and Composition), Director of Music of Turkey Ensemble
Timothy D. Taylor
Professor - Ethnomusicology (Popular Musics, World Music, Cultural Theory)
Pejman Hadadi
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of Persia Ensemble
Steven Loza
Professor - Global Jazz Studies, Ethnomusicology, Director of the UCLA Center for Latino Arts
Roger Savage
Professor and Chair of Ethnomusicology
I Nyoman Wenten
Adjunct Associate Professor - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music of Bali Ensemble
Mark Kligman
Mickey Katz Chair of Jewish Music and Professor - Musicology, Ethnomusicology, and Humanities, Director of Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience
Janice Mautner Markham
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Klezmer Music Ensemble
Miles Shrewsbery
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Music of India Ensemble
Supeena Adler
Adjunct Associate Professor - Ethnomusicology, World Music Instrument Curator and Conservator, Director of Music of Thailand Ensemble;
Joko Sutrisno
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music of Java Ensemble
Armen Adamian
Instructor of Armenian Woodwinds; Ph.D. Student in Ethnomusicology
Abhiman Kaushal
Adjunct Professor - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of India Ensemble
Soheil Nadimi
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of Persia Ensemble
Helen Rees
Professor - Ethnomusicology, Director of World Music Center (Music of China, Intangible Cultural Heritage in East Asia)
Sumeet Anand
Visiting Associate Professor
Francis Kofi Akotuah
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music and Dance of Ghana Ensemble
Jesús Guzmán
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music of Mexico Ensemble
Anna Morcom
Mohindar Brar Sambhi Chair of Indian Music, Professor - Ethnomusicology
Behzad Nadimi
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of Persia Ensemble
Rahul Neuman
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of India Ensemble
Cheryl L. Keyes
Professor - Global Jazz Studies and Ethnomusicology (Contemporary Jazz, Hip Hop)
Maureen Russell
Adjunct Professor - Ethnomusicology (Audiovisual Archiving), Archivist of the Ethnomusicology Archive
Robert F. Reigle
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology (Musical Cultures of the World: Europe and the Americas)
Guangming Li
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Chinese Instrumental Music
Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy
Adjunct Professor - Ethnomusicology (Folk and Classical Music of South Asia; Bollywood)
Gamin Kang
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music of Korea Ensemble
David Bragger
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Mohsen Mohammadi
Director of Indo-Persian Music
Diane White-Clayton
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of African American Music Ensemble
Marc T. Gaspard Bolin
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology (History of Jazz)
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