Ethnomusicology Faculty

See the new faculty listing page here -- this page is now obsolete (Summer 2008)

Books by Columbia Ethno Faculty Members:

Dieter Christensen. (Ph.D., Free University, Berlin 1957) Professor of Music; History of ethnomusicology; Balkans and West Asia: Turkey, Kurdistan, and Oman.
Email: dc22@ columbia . edu

Other Music Department Faculty (Selected)*

Susan Boynton. Medieval music; gender.
Brad Garton. Composer. Director, Computer Music Center. Music and technology.
Giuseppe Gerbino. Early Italian opera and madrigal; music and literature; sociology of music.
Fred Lerdahl. Composer/theorist. Music and language. Cognitive science.
George Lewis. Jazz musician/composer; Avant-garde musics. Music and technology.

*Click here to view other Music Department Faculty

Selected Faculty in Other Columbia (or Barnard) Departments*

Lila Abu-Lughod. Gender and poetics; feminist theory; Middle East.
Myron Cohen. Social organization; family structure; nationalism; China.
Elaine Combs-Schilling. Gender; performance; opera; Morocco.
E. Valentine Daniel. Semiotics anthropology; culture and violence; India and Sri Lanka.
Steven Gregory. Urban anthropology; race and gender; United States and Caribbean.
Farah Griffin. African-American literature, music, and politics.
Marilyn Ivy. Modernity; narrative; post-structuralism; Japan.
Brian Larkin. Media, technology, Islam, West Africa. (Barnard College)
Rosalind Morris. Theories of performance; visuality; Thailand.
Robert O'Meally. African-American literature and arts; Jazz and American culture.
John Pemberton. Performance; colonial history; Indonesia.
Sandhya Shukla. Asian-American immigration; race and ethnicity; United States and UK.
Michael Taussig. Violence and the State; Experimental ethnography. Performance. Latin America.

* These lists are selective, including faculty members who have worked closely with students in the Ethnomusicology graduate program in recent years. Columbia has many more faculty members in Music and other departments who might be of significant interest to individual students. Please visit the Columbia Directory or the Columbia University List of Schools and Departments to find out about other faculty members of interest. Bear in mind that students at Columbia also have access to courses and faculty members at the City University of New York and New York University.