Affiliate Faculty

Affiliate Faculty


Judah Cohen

Judah Cohen

Associate Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs

Professor, Music (Musicology)

Lou and Sybil Mervis Professor, Jewish Culture

Research Interests
music in Jewish life; American music; musical theater; popular culture; Caribbean Jewish history; diaspora; medical ethnomusicology

Jennifer Goodlander

Jennifer Goodlander

Associate Professor, Comparative Literature

she/her

Research Interests
Southeast Asian performance; gender studies; performance studies; visual culture and museum studies; postcolonial theory; transnational circuits of performance

Jane Goodman

Jane Goodman

Professor, Anthropology

she/her

Research Interests
performance and civic life; intertextuality; colonial and postcolonial formations; theater, music, and poetry; diasporas: North Africa; Middle East; France

M. Cooper Harriss

M. Cooper Harriss

Associate Professor, Religious Studies

Research Interests
religion in the Americas; religion and literature; race and religion; irony and performativity

Javier F. León

Javier F. León

Academic Specialist, Latin American Music Center

Director, Latin American Music Center

he/him

Research Interests
popular music; culture industries and neoliberalism; intangible cultural heritage policy; African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean; musics of the Andean region; music and nationalism

Susan Lepselter

Susan Lepselter

Associate Professor, American Studies

Associate Professor, Anthropology

Research Interests
Interdisciplinary creative scholarship, public feeling and affect theory, uncanny conspiracy theory, neurodivergence in culture, human/non-human animal interaction, indigenous film and literature

Noriko Manabe

Noriko Manabe

Professor, Music (Music Theory)

  • nmanabe@iu.edu

Research Interests
Music and social movements; Japan; popular music; musical analysis; intertextuality; linguistics and music; hip hop; Hispanic Caribbean

Sergio Ospina-Romero

Sergio Ospina-Romero

Assistant Professor, Music (Musicology)

Research Interests
sound reproduction technologies, Latin American music, and jazz in the early twentieth century

Jillian C. Rogers

Jillian C. Rogers

Assistant Professor, Music (Musicology)

Research Interests
disability studies, trauma studies, sound studies, gender and sexuality studies, and cultural studies

Eric Sandweiss

Eric Sandweiss

Thomas and Kathryn Miller Professor of History

he/him

Research Interests
cultural landscape studies; urban history; architecture; public history and museums; visual culture; American popular music; Indiana; environmental history

Marvin Sterling

Marvin Sterling

Associate Professor, Anthropology

Research Interests
Contemporary Japan and Jamaica; cultural transnationalism, performance theory, race (global blackness, mixed-race identities), Afro-Asia, human rights, and ethnographic writing

Stephen Stuempfle

Stephen Stuempfle

Executive Director, Society for Ethnomusicology

he/him

Research Interests
Traditional arts in the Caribbean; Caribbean cultural history; landscape, built environments, space, and place; history of folklore studies and ethnomusicology

Charles Sykes

Charles Sykes

Executive Director, African American Arts Institute

  • csykes@indiana.edu
  • (812) 855-0350
  • Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, Suite 310

Research Interests
African-American popular music; arranging; performance and analysis