Department of
Musicology
Faculty

Department Leadership
Professor and Chair of Musicology
Joy H. Calico 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...
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Professor of Musicology, Founder and Director of UCLA PEER Lab, Director of Graduate Studies in Musicology
Nina Eidsheim 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...
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Associate Professor - Musicology and Humanities, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Musicology
Elizabeth Randell Upton 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...
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Our Faculty
Joy H. Calico
Professor and Chair of Musicology
Nina Eidsheim
Professor of Musicology, Founder and Director of UCLA PEER Lab, Director of Graduate Studies in Musicology
Cesar Favila
Associate Professor - Musicology, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Robert Fink
Professor and Chair – Music Industry, Professor - Musicology And Humanities (History and Analysis of Popular Music, Internships And Industry Partnerships)
Thomas Hodgson
Associate Professor - Musicology and Music Industry (Music and Data, Global Music Industry)
Jenny Olivia Johnson
Associate Professor - Musicology
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
Raymond Knapp
Distinguished Professor of Musicology, Disability Studies, and Humanities, Director of the UCLA Center for Musical Humanities
Elisabeth Le Guin
Emerita
David Leaf
Adjunct Associate Professor - Music Industry and Musicology (Music Documentaries, Songwriting, History of Popular Music)
Tamara Levitz
Professor
David MacFadyen
Professor - Music Industry, Musicology and Comparative Literature (Career Skills, History of Music Industry, Internships), Director of Graduate Programs
Kristi Brown Montesano
Lecturer in Musicology
Mitchell Morris
Professor Emeritus - Musicology
Tiffany Naiman
Director of the Berry Gordy Music Industry Center, Instructor - Music Industry (Critical Perspectives, Capstone Sequence, History of Popular Music), Director of Undergraduate Programs in Music Industry, Career Services
Catherine Provenzano
Assistant Professor - Musicology and Music Industry (Critical and Contemporary Perspectives on Music Technology)
Holley Replogle-Wong
Continuing Lecturer in Musicology, Program Director of Center for Musical Humanities
Jessica Schwartz
Associate Professor - Musicology and Music Industry (Punk and DIY)
Elizabeth Randell Upton
Associate Professor - Musicology and Humanities, Director of Undergraduate Studies in Musicology
Marylin Winkle
Continuing Lecturer - Musicology, Director of Early Music Ensemble
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