Jeffers Engelhardt 
Assistant Professor, Anthropology of Music, Amherst College. B.M. Oberlin Conservatory, M.A., Ph.D. in Music, University of Chicago. Music and religion, Europe and the Finno-Ugric world, community ethnography, human and cultural rights, music and postsocialism.
(413) 542-8469 • jengelhardt@amherst.edu
Rebecca Miller 
Associate Professor of Music, Hampshire College. M.A. Wesleyan University. Ph.D. Brown University. Music of the Caribbean; popular and traditional musics of North America; music journalism; applied ethnomusicology; Irish traditional and popular music; old time (Appalachian) string band music. Performance: old time ensembles and klezmer bands.
(413) 559-5545 • rmiller@hampshire.edu
Junko Oba 
Assistant Professor of Music, Hampshire College. B.A., International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan, M.A., A.B.D, Wesleyan University. Research interests: Japanese traditional and contemporary popular musics, East Asia, Asian Diasporas (Nikkei Brazilian communities in Japan, in particular), national identity in the trans- and post-national world orders, applied ethnomusicology (sound record archiving), organology and musical instrument building.
(413) 559-6896 • joba@hampshire.edu
Olabode Omojola 
Five College Assistant Professor of Music, Mount Holyoke College. M.A. University of Ibadan. Ph.D. University of Leicester. Indigenous and modern musical traditions; African and world music traditions; African music and ethnomusicology.
(413) 538-2483 • bomojola@mtholyoke.edu
Jason Robinson 
Assistant Professor of Jazz & Popular Music, Amherst College; M.A. & Ph.D., University of California, San Diego; Focus and Research: Improvised music and experimentalism in African American and African Diasporic music. Teaching: Jazz, Popular Music and Urban Ethnography.
(413) 542-8208 • jrobinson@amherst.edu
Margaret Sarkissian 
Professor of Music, Smith College. M.A. and Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Musics of Southeast and East Asia, especially Malaysia Japan; popular music of the Islamic world, music and tourism. Performance: gamelan.
(413) 585-3198 • msarkiss@email.smith.edu
Steve Waksman 
Associate Professor of Music and American Studies, Smith College. M.A. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Ph.D. University of Minnesota. American popular music; African American music; music and race; music and sexuality; the history of musical instruments (especially the guitar).
(413) 585-3161 • swaksman@email.smith.edu
Ensemble Directors
Faith Conant
Instructor of Music
Five Colleges. B.A. Wesleyan University, M.A. Tufts University. Performance: Five College West African Music Ensemble. Interests: Music, poetry and language from southern Togo, Ghana, Benin and Haiti.
fconant@acad.umass.edu
Prof. Sumarsam
Adjunct Professor, Music Department, Wesleyan University. B.A. Akademi Seni Karawitan, M.A. Wesleyan University, Ph.D. Cornell University. Director of the Smith College Gamelan Ensemble. Indonesian music and theater, focusing on the performance, history and theory of gamelan and wayang.
Performance: gamelan.
(860) 685-2599 • sumarsam@wesleyan.edu
