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
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
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
Associate Professor, Religious Studies
Research Interests
religion in the Americas; religion and literature; race and religion; irony and performativity
Professor, International Studies
she/they
Research Interests
ethnography of water; environmental justice; art and social activism; cultural criminology; urban studies; Central and South America, Caribbean, United States
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
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
Assistant Professor, Music (Musicology)
Research Interests
sound reproduction technologies, Latin American music, and jazz in the early twentieth century
Assistant Professor, Music (Musicology)
Research Interests
disability studies, trauma studies, sound studies, gender and sexuality studies, and cultural studies
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
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
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
Executive Director, African American Arts Institute
Research Interests
African-American popular music; arranging; performance and analysis
Executive Director, American Folklore Society
she/her
The College of Arts