Donna Armstrong
Assistant to the Chair - Ethnomusicology

Donna Armstrong is the chair’s assistant for The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Department of Ethnomusicology, where she has worked since 1995. She supports the chair and works collaboratively with faculty and staff to ensure the smooth daily operation of the department.

Before coming to the Department of Ethnomusicology, she worked for the UCLA Department of Art as a student affairs officer and before that she worked for the UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center and the UCLA Department of African American Studies (previously the Center for Afro-American Studies) as assistant administrative analyst.

Donna studied classical piano during her youth and continues to practice when time allows. She also studied the dance and music of various cultures in Central and West Africa, beginning in the late 1970s. She thus deeply understands the concept of “bi-musicality,” the pedagogical philosophy that was named in 1960 by UCLA Institute of Ethnomusicology founder Mantle Hood.

John Lee
Manager, Ethnomusicology & Musicology Departments
Münir Beken
Associate Professor - Ethnomusicology (World Music Theory and Composition), Director of Music of Turkey Ensemble
Diane White-Clayton
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of African American Music Ensemble
Anna Morcom
Mohindar Brar Sambhi Chair of Indian Music, Professor - Ethnomusicology
David Bragger
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Old-Time String Band Ensemble
Mohsen Mohammadi
Director of Indo-Persian Music
Soheil Nadimi
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of Persia Ensemble
Gamin Kang
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music of Korea Ensemble
Janice Mautner Markham
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Klezmer Music Ensemble
Marc T. Gaspard Bolin
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology (History of Jazz)
Behzad Nadimi
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of Persia Ensemble
Maureen Russell
Adjunct Professor - Ethnomusicology (Audiovisual Archiving), Archivist of the Ethnomusicology Archive
Miles Shrewsbery
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Music of India Ensemble
Abhiman Kaushal
Adjunct Professor - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of India Ensemble
Francis Kofi Akotuah
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music and Dance of Ghana Ensemble
Chi Li
Adjunct Professor - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music of China 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
Steven Loza
Professor - Global Jazz Studies, Ethnomusicology, Director of the UCLA Center for Latino Arts
Rahul Neuman
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of India Ensemble
Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy
Adjunct Professor - Ethnomusicology (Folk and Classical Music of South Asia; Bollywood)
Timothy D. Taylor
Professor - Ethnomusicology (Popular Musics, World Music, Cultural Theory)
Supeena Adler
Adjunct Associate Professor - Ethnomusicology, World Music Instrument Curator and Conservator, Director of Music of Thailand Ensemble;
Roger Savage
Professor and Chair of Ethnomusicology
Armen Adamian
Instructor of Armenian Woodwinds; Ph.D. Student in Ethnomusicology
Helen Rees
Professor - Ethnomusicology, Director of World Music Center (Music of China, Intangible Cultural Heritage in East Asia)
Sumeet Anand
Visiting Associate Professor
Joko Sutrisno
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music of Java Ensemble
Pejman Hadadi
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of Persia Ensemble
Robert F. Reigle
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology (Musical Cultures of the World: Europe and the Americas)
Guangming Li
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Chinese Instrumental Music
I Nyoman Wenten
Adjunct Associate Professor - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music of Bali Ensemble
Cheryl L. Keyes
Professor - Global Jazz Studies and Ethnomusicology (Contemporary Jazz, Hip Hop)
Jesús Guzmán
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music of Mexico Ensemble

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