Alan Burdette

Executive Director, Society for Ethnomusicology

Assistant Research Scholar, Folklore & Ethnomusicology

he/him

• semexec@iu.edu
• 800 E. 3rd St., 211

Judah Cohen

Associate Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs

Professor, Music (Musicology)

Lou and Sybil Mervis Professor, Jewish Culture

• cohenjm@iu.edu
• (812) 855-4137
• Simon Center, M145K

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

Jennifer Goodlander

Associate Professor, Comparative Literature

she/her

• jgoodlan@iu.edu
• (812) 855-0579
• Ballantine Hall 636

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

Jane Goodman

Professor, Anthropology

she/her

• janegood@iu.edu
• (812) 855-3232
• Student Building 044

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

M. Cooper Harriss

Associate Professor, Religious Studies

• charriss@iu.edu
• (812) 855-3532
• Woodburn 310

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

Javier F. León

Academic Specialist, Latin American Music Center

Director, Latin American Music Center

he/him

• jfleon@iu.edu
• (812) 856-5033
• Merrill Hall, MU118

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

Associate Professor, American Studies

Associate Professor, Anthropology

• slepselt@iu.edu
• (812) 856-3878
• Ballantine Hall 576

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

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

Assistant Professor, Music (Musicology)

• sospinar@iu.edu
• (812) 855-7346
• Simon Center, M225D

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

Eric Sandweiss

Thomas and Kathryn Miller Professor of History

he/him

• sesandw@iu.edu
• (812)-855-0210
• Ballantine Hall 827

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

Marvin Sterling

Associate Professor, Anthropology

• mdsterli@iu.edu
• (812) 855-3858
• Student Building 114

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

Jessica Turner

Executive Director, American Folklore Society

she/her

• jturner@afsnet.org
• (812) 856-2346
• 800 E. 3rd St., 225