Joy H. Calico is professor of musicology and chair of the Department of Musicology. Her scholarship focuses on interdisciplinary Cold War cultural politics, opera since 1900, and Arnold Schoenberg. Her current projects include a theory of twentieth- and twenty-first-century opera...

Nina Eidsheim (she/her) is the author of Sensing Sound: Singing and Listening as Vibrational Practice and The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music; co-editing Oxford Handbook of Voice Studies; Co-editor of the Refiguring American Music book series for Duke University Press. She received her...

Cesar Favila’s work resides at the intersections of music history, art, and religion, often examining how the sacred and the profane animate beliefs about salvation. His transhistorical and interdisciplinary interests weave transcription and translation of archival sources with arguments from...

Robert Fink is Professor of Musicology and Music Industry, and the director of the Berry Gordy Music Industry Center. Trained as a music theorist and musicologist, his primary areas of interest include musical analysis, avant-garde and minimal music, popular music...

Thomas Hodgson is an ethnomusicologist whose research explores algorithms, AI, and digital technologies in global music cultures, with a particular focus on Pakistan and the Pakistani diaspora. His book, Journeys of Love: Kashmiris, Music, and the Poetics of Migration (University...

Jenny Olivia Johnson (b. 1978 in Santa Monica, CA) is a composer, sound artist, music scholar, and associate professor of musicology at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Her work ranges from essays on music, trauma, and synaesthesia to...

Raymond Knapp is Distinguished Professor of Musicology, Disability Studies, and Humanities, and is currently serving as Interim Chair of UCLA’s Interdepartmental Degree Program in Disability Studies, whose major he helped launch in 2024. The inaugural director of the UCLA Center...

Elisabeth Le Guin was professor of Musicology at UCLA from 1997-2022, when she became Emerita. She will remain involved with the School of Music as a colleague, mentor, facilitator, and informal student adviser. Le Guin’s academic research has journeyed from...

Tamara Levitz is a musicologist from Montréal, Canada who currently holds a position as Professor of Comparative Literature at UCLA in Los Angeles, California. She has published widely on musical modernism in Germany, Cuba, Senegal, and France in the 1920s...

David MacFadyen was trained both at the University of London (SSEES) and UCLA, where he received his PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures. Since that time, he has been an avid scholar, promoter, and collector of recordings from East Slavic cultures (Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus). The...

Catherine Provenzano’s scholarship focuses on voice, instrumentality, labor, and technology as they intersect gender, race, and class in US popular culture. She is currently writing a cultural history and ethnography of pitch correction softwares (Auto-Tune, Melodyne), and researching the political...

Jessica A. Schwartz approaches research on musical representations and sonic histories of militarization and imperial violence through community-focused collaborations, movements, and creative dissent. Schwartz is the author of Radiation Sounds: Marshallese Music and Nuclear Silences (Duke University Press, 2021) and articles in American...

Timothy D. Taylor, a professor in the Departments of Ethnomusicology, Anthropology, and Musicology at UCLA, is an interdisciplinary social scientist who studies capitalism and other economic issues, globalization, consumer culture, and technology as they relate to music. He is the...

Elizabeth Randell Upton’s research focuses on European vocal music pre-1600, medievalism in music, and early music revivals. Her first book, Music and Performance in the Later Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), examines how surviving European music ca. 1400 preserves evidence...