John Lee
Manager, Ethnomusicology & Musicology Departments
John Ho-Joon Lee joined The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music as the MSO of the ethnomusicology and musicology departments in 2018. Lee began working at UCLA in 2011 at the career center and most recently served as the operations manager and staff personnel for UCLA College, office of the deans. Before his career at UCLA, he was a founder/partner of a web design company for 11 years.
John Ho-Joon Lee received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology. He enjoys spending time with his family and photographing his two young children during his spare time.
Maureen Russell
Adjunct Professor - Ethnomusicology (Audiovisual Archiving), Archivist of the Ethnomusicology Archive
Armen Adamian
Instructor of Armenian Woodwinds; Ph.D. Student in Ethnomusicology
Jesús Guzmán
Continuing Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music of Mexico Ensemble
Gamin Kang
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music of Korea Ensemble
Timothy D. Taylor
Professor - Ethnomusicology (Popular Musics, World Music, Cultural Theory)
Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy
Adjunct Professor - Ethnomusicology (Folk and Classical Music of South Asia; Bollywood)
Francis Kofi Akotuah
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music and Dance of Ghana Ensemble
Anna Morcom
Mohindar Brar Sambhi Professor of Indian Music, Professor - Ethnomusicology
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
Münir Beken
Associate Professor - Ethnomusicology (World Music Theory and Composition), Director of Music of Turkey Ensemble
Rahul Neuman
Continuing Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of India Ensemble
David Bragger
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Old-Time String Band Ensemble
Robert F. Reigle
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology (Musical Cultures of the World: Europe and the Americas)
Behzad Nadimi
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of Persia Ensemble
Soheil Nadimi
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of Persia 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)
Diane White-Clayton
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of African American Music Ensemble
Marc T. Gaspard Bolin
Continuing Lecturer - Ethnomusicology (History of Jazz)
Steven Loza
Professor - Global Jazz Studies, Ethnomusicology, Director of the UCLA Center for Latino Arts
Joko Sutrisno
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music of Java Ensemble
Miles Shrewsbery
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Music of India Ensemble
Pejman Hadadi
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Co-Director of Music of Persia Ensemble
Tsering Wangmo Satho
Lecturer
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)
Roger Savage
Professor - Ethnomusicology (Systematic Ethnomusicology)
I Nyoman Wenten
Adjunct Associate Professor - Ethnomusicology, Director of Music of Bali Ensemble
Hermann Hudde
Lecturer - Music of Latin America
Supeena Adler
Adjunct Associate Professor - Ethnomusicology, World Music Instrument Curator and Conservator, Director of Music of Thailand Ensemble;
Janice Mautner Markham
Lecturer - Ethnomusicology, Director of Klezmer Music Ensemble
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