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
Melissa Bilal is a sociocultural anthropologist and historian specializing in music and performance studies, gender and sexuality studies, and memory studies. Her ethnographic research explores the role of music in the transmission of Armenian memory in Turkey, while her archival research is focused on the musical and intellectual history of Armenians in the late Ottoman Empire and early republican Turkey. Her most recent publications are “Pavagan E (Enough!): Zabel Yesayan’s (1878–1943?) Political Thought on Peace, Justice, and People’s Right to Self-Defense” in Histories of Political Thought in the Ottoman World and “Sonic Recovery: Tracing Koharik Gazarossian’s Life and Music” in the CD Piano Works of Koharik Gazarossian. Her forthcoming books are Feminism in Armenian: Lives and Texts Through Empire, Genocide, and Diaspora (with Lerna Ekmekcioglu) and Injuries of Reconciliation: Music, Memory, and Everyday Survival of Armenians in Turkey.
Ph.D. Music (Ethnomusicology), University of Chicago; M.A. Sociology, Boğaziçi University; B.A. Sociology, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul.
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