Faculty

Alessandra Ciucci 

Area Chair for Ethnomusicology, 2023-24
Associate Professor of Music
PhD in Ethnomusicology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Research Interests: Morocco, Arabic music, migration, gender and sexuality, performance.
Email: [email protected]

Kevin Fellezs

Associate Professor of Music
PhD, History of Consciousness (American Studies), University of California at Santa Cruz
Director, Center for Jazz Studies
Research areas: Popular music; Hawaiian music; African American and Asian American music cultures; social identity, multi-raciality; indigeneity and race. 
Email: [email protected]

Aaron A. Fox 

(on leave Spring 2024)
Associate Professor of Music
PhD in Social Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
Director, Center for Ethnomusicology (Fall 2023)
Director of Undergraduate Studies (Fall 2023)
Research Interests: Popular music; working-class cultures; language and music; race, class, and indigeneity; ethnographic theory and method; history of social thought; linguistics; Native American Studies; cultural and intellectual property issues. 
Email: [email protected]

Ruth S. Opara

Assistant Professor of Music
PhD in Ethnomusicology, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2017
Research Interests: African and African diasporic music and knowledge production; music and decolonial discourse, women in music, music and gender, and African music and transnational encounters.
Email: [email protected]

Christopher J. Washburne 

Associate Professor of Music
Chair, Department of Music
Director, Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program
PhD in Music (Ethnomusicology), Columbia University    
Research Areas: Jazz; Salsa; Latin American and Caribbean musics; music and identity; performance. 
Email: [email protected]