Raymond Knapp
Chair of Musicology, Distinguished Professor of Musicology and Humanities, Director of UCLA Center of Musical Humanities (CMH), Musicology

Raymond Knapp is Distinguished Professor of Musicology and Humanities, and is currently serving his third term as Chair of the Department. The inaugural Director of the UCLA Center for Musical Humanities, he has also served the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music as Academic Associate Dean. Knapp has a broad interest in classical and contemporary music, and has authored five books, including the award-winning The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity (2005) and, most recently, Making Light: Haydn, Musical Camp, and the Long Shadow of German Idealism (2018). He is currently co-editing The Oxford Handbook of the Television Musical with Jessica Sternfeld. At UCLA since 1989, Knapp is well known for his commitment to undergraduate education, having chaired the Academic Senate’s Undergraduate Council, General Education Governance Committee, and College Faculty Executive Committee. He is currently helping to develop a Disability Studies IDP and Major at UCLA.

Jessica Schwartz
Associate Professor of Musicology, Music Industry (Punk and DIY)
Mark Kligman
Professor of Musicology, Ethnomusicology, and Humanities; Mickey Katz Chair of Jewish Music; Director of Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience
Holley Replogle-Wong
Lecturer in Musicology, Program Director of CMH
Joy Calico
Professor and Vice Chair of Musicology, Director of Graduate Studies
Catherine Provenzano
Assistant Professor of Musicology, Music Industry (Critical and Contemporary Perspectives on Music Technology)
Nina Eidsheim
Professor of Musicology and Humanities Founder and Director of UCLA PEER Lab
Elizabeth Randell Upton
Associate Professor of Musicology and Humanities
Robert Fink
Chair of Music Industry Program, Professor of Musicology and Humanities (Music Theory, Analysis of Popular Music, Internships and Industry Partnerships)
Thomas Hodgson
Assistant Professor of Musicology, Music Industry (Music and Data, Global Music Industry)
Cesar Favila
Assistant Professor
Tiffany Naiman
Director of Undergraduate Programs, Music Industry; Instructor, Music Industry & Musicology (Critical Perspectives, Capstone Sequence, History of Popular Music)
David MacFadyen
Professor of Musicology, Music Industry (History of Music Industry, Music and the Internet, Digital Humanities)
Nick DePinna
Adjunct Assistant Professor--Musicianship

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