- Ph.D., Boston University, 2022
- M.A.T., Tufts University, 2008
- B.A., Hamilton College, 2004
Jeffrey Dyer
Visiting Assistant Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology
he/him
- jefmdyer@iu.edu
- 800 E. 3rd St., 243
- Office Hours
Education
Research interests
- Historical ethnomusicology and critiques of historicism
- Time and temporality
- Sound studies
- Trauma studies
- Music and dance of Southeast Asia
- Music and religion
- Buddhist studies
Courses recently taught
- Global Popular Music
- Music, Memory, and Violence Across Asia
Awards + Distinctions
- Martin Hatch Prize, for most distinguished student paper on Asian music presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology’s 2020 annual meeting.
- Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 2019-2020.
- Senior Research Fellow, Center for Khmer Studies, 2018-2019.
Publication highlights
- Dyer, Jeffrey. 2020. “Popular Songs, Melodies from the Dead: Moving beyond Historicism with the Buddhist Ethics and Aesthetics of Pin Peat and Cambodian Hip Hop.” Religions 11(11): 1-24.
- Dyer, Jeffrey. 2018. “Oral Pedagogy, Playful Performance, and Issues of Notation in Khmer Wedding Music.” Ethnomusicology 62(1): 104-36.
- Dyer, Jeffrey. 2017. “Nationalist Transformations: Music, Ritual, and the Work of Memory in Cambodia and Thailand.” The Yale Journal of Music & Religion 3(2): 26-42.
- Dyer, Jeffrey. 2016. “A View from Cambodia: Reorienting the Monochord Zither.” Asian Music 47(1): 3-28.
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