Associate Vice Provost for Faculty and Academic Affairs
Professor, 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
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 history, colonialism and nationalism, museums
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