Timothy Murtland
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; popular music of the Islamic world, music and tourism. Performance: gamelan.
(413) 585-3198 • msarkiss@email.smith.edu
Jason Robinson
Associate 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
Marianna Ritchey
Associate Professor of Music, UMass Amherst. B.A. Lewis and Clark College, M.A., Ph.D. University of California Los Angeles. Research interests: nineteenth-century romanticism, Berlioz, literature, contemporary classical music, economics, neoliberalism.
(413) 545-4077• mritchey@umass.edu
Olabode Omojola
Hammond-Douglass Five College 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
Junko Oba
Associate Professor of Music, Hampshire College. B.A., International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan, M.A., Ph.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
Andrea Moore
Assistant Professor of Music, Smith College. B.M. Rice University, M.A., University of Southern California, PhD, University of California Los Angeles. Music and commemoration; new music and concert culture; late capitalism; sociology of music; historiography.
413-585-3162 • amoore44@smith.edu
Rebecca Miller
Professor of Music, Hampshire College. A.B., Bryn Mawr 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