Department of
Ethnomusicology
Faculty
Our Faculty
Supeena Adler
Adjunct Associate Professor - Ethnomusicology, World Music Instrument Curator and Conservator, Director of Music of Thailand Ensemble;
Francis Kofi Akotuah
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music and Dance of Ghana Ensemble
Sumeet Anand
Visiting Associate Professor
Münir Beken
Associate Professor - Ethnomusicology (World Music Theory and Composition), Director of Music of Turkey Ensemble
Marc T. Gaspard Bolin
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology (History of Jazz)
David Bragger
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Old-Time String Band Ensemble
Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy
Adjunct Professor - Ethnomusicology (Folk and Classical Music of South Asia; Bollywood)
Jesús Guzmán
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music of Mexico Ensemble
Pejman Hadadi
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of Persia Ensemble
Gamin Kang
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music of Korea Ensemble
Abhiman Kaushal
Adjunct Professor - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of India Ensemble
Cheryl L. Keyes
Professor - Global Jazz Studies and Ethnomusicology (Contemporary Jazz, Hip Hop)
Mark Kligman
Mickey Katz Professor of Jewish Music and Professor - Musicology, Ethnomusicology, and Humanities, Director of Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience
Guangming Li
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Chinese Instrumental Music
Steven Loza
Professor - Global Jazz Studies, Ethnomusicology, Director of the UCLA Center for Latino Arts
Janice Mautner Markham
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Klezmer Music Ensemble
Mohsen Mohammadi
Director of Indo-Persian Music
Anna Morcom
Mohindar Brar Sambhi Professor of Indian Music, Professor - Ethnomusicology
Soheil Nadimi
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of Persia Ensemble
Behzad Nadimi
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of Persia Ensemble
Rahul Neuman
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of India Ensemble
Dawn Norfleet
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology
Helen Rees
Professor - Ethnomusicology, Director of World Music Center (Music of China, Intangible Cultural Heritage in East Asia)
Robert F. Reigle
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology (Musical Cultures of the World: Europe and the Americas)
Maureen Russell
Adjunct Professor - Ethnomusicology (Audiovisual Archiving), Archivist of the Ethnomusicology Archive
Roger Savage
Professor and Chair of Ethnomusicology
Miles Shrewsbery
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Music of India Ensemble
Joko Sutrisno
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music of Java Ensemble
Timothy D. Taylor
Professor - Ethnomusicology (Popular Musics, World Music, Cultural Theory)
I Nyoman Wenten
Adjunct Associate Professor - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music of Bali Ensemble
Diane White-Clayton
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of African American Music Ensemble
Faculty & Students in the News
More News
The Past is Present
The UCLA Magazine surveyed the ethnomusicology department’s preservation efforts for global cultural heritage at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.
GRAMMY-Nominated Alumna KOLE interviewed in Daily Bruin
KOLE, an ethnomusicology alumna of The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, co-wrote and produced three songs on the GRAMMY nominated album Vantablack.
Samuel Lamontagne Joins UC Riverside as Assistant Professor
Lamontagne, who completed his dissertation in ethnomusicology under the direction of Tim Taylor in 2022, held a UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at the UCLA Department of History prior to joining