Jeffers Engelhardt, Assistant Professor of Music, Amherst College. B.M. Oberlin Conservatory, M.A., Ph.D. in Music, University of Chicago. Ethnomusicology, including Orthodox Christianity in Estonia, Finno-Ugrian popular musics, and music in the postsocialist world. (413) 542-8469 • jengelhardt@amherst.edu
Rebecca Miller, Assistant Professor of Music of the Americas, 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, Visiting 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 and Popular Music. (413) 542-8208 • jrobinson@amherst.edu
David Samuels, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts. Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin. Native American musics; popular culture; music and language; linguistic anthropology; anthropological aesthetics. (413) 545-2702 • samuels@anthro.umass.edu
Margaret Sarkissian,Associate Professor of Music, Smith College. M.A. and Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Musics of Southeast and East Asia; music and tourism; music and gender. Performance: gamelan. (413) 585-3198 • msarkiss@email.smith.edu
Steve Waksman, Assistant 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
Assistant Professor of Music, Amherst College. B.M. Oberlin Conservatory, M.A., Ph.D. in Music, University of Chicago. Ethnomusicology, including Orthodox Christianity in Estonia, Finno-Ugrian popular musics, and music in the postsocialist world.
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 • 
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.
Associate Professor of Music, Smith College. M.A. and Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Musics of Southeast and East Asia; music and tourism; music and gender. Performance: gamelan. 
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).