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
Münir Beken
Associate Professor - Ethnomusicology (World Music Theory and Composition), Director of Music of Turkey Ensemble
Marc T. Gaspard Bolin
Continuing 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
Continuing Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music of Mexico Ensemble
Pejman Hadadi
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of Persia Ensemble
Hermann Hudde
Lecturer - Music of Latin America
Paul Humphreys
Lecturer
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
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
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
Continuing Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of India Ensemble
Helen Rees
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Professor and Chair of 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 - Ethnomusicology (Systematic 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)
Tsering Wangmo Satho
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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
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Remembering Hazel Chung Hood
Hazel Chung Hood played a pivotal role in establishing the bi-musicality methodology at the UCLA Institute of Ethnomusicology (now the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology) by teaching world dance studies. This
Faculty and Alumni Earn Multiple 2026 Grammy Nods
BRUIN GRAMMY NOMINATIONS! Congratulations to faculty and alums of The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music who have been nominated for a 2026 Grammy Award. Music Industry faculty member Erik
The Lost World of African-American Cantors
From the LA Sentinel: The Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience hosted an event telling the little-known story of African Americans who performed and recorded Yiddish and