This list includes the current members of the Society for Arab Music Research. If you would like to add your name and contact information, please email Christopher Witulski.

Click on the names to reveal further information on members’ interests, contact information, and a selection of their publications.

Nili Belkind

Beau Bothwell
Assistant Professor | Kalamazoo College

Email: beau.bothwell@kzoo.edu

Interests: Radio, popular music, politics in Syria, Lebanon, and the diaspora

Issa Boulos
PhD candidate | Leiden University

Email: iboulos@harpercollege.edu

Website: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/issa-boulos#tab-4

Interests: Palestinian music and the Arabian peninsula

Liliana Carrizo
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities | Harvard University

Email: lcarrizo@fas.harvard.edu

Website: http://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/content/current-fellows/

Interests: Iraqi song, oral history, Iraqi maqam, Iraqi diaspora

Hicham Chami
PhD Student, editor of the Journal of Arab Music Research | Columbia University

Email: hc2646@columbia.edu

Website: https://music.columbia.edu/bios/hicham-chami

Interests: Arab, Maghrebi, and Andalusian traditions; historical ethnomusicology

Virginia Danielson

Iyadh El Kahla

Michael Figueroa
Assistant Professor | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Michael Frishkopf
Professor of Music, Director of the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology | University of Alberta

Email: michaelf@ualberta.ca

Website: http://frishkopf.org

Interests: Egypt, Sufism, Islam, music, sound, built environment, architecture

Jillian Fulton
PhD Candidate | York University

Email: jsfulton@yorku.ca

Interests: Arab diasporas, Morocco, UDM, social violence, nostalgia

Bradford J. Garvey
Doctoral Candidate | The Graduate Center, CUNY

Email: bgarvey@gradcenter.cuny.edu

Website: http://opencuny.org/bradfordjgarvey/

Interests: Arabian Peninsula and Arabian Gulf musics, dance, collective performance, the state, praise, sung poetry, music analysis, the "music" question; the Iraqi Maqam and its transmission

Ian Goldstein
Lecturer in Ethnomusicology | Tufts University

Email: iangoldstein@tufts.edu

Website: http://iangoldsteinmusic.com

Interests: Music cognition, interculture, teaching and learning, social memory, plucked chordophones, Mediterranean, MENA

Lillie Gordon
Lecturer and Adjunct Assistant Professor | University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Interests: Egypt, violin, post-colonial studies, nostalgia, style

Mohamed Haseeb N
Research Scholar | Mangalore University, India

Email: mohdhaseebn@gmail.com

Interests: Analytical approaches to Mappila music—particularly the analysis of Arab Islamic influence on Mappila song—and cross cultural musical influences

Jared Holton
University of California, Santa Barbara

Kathleen Hood
Publications Director and Events Coordinator | UCLA Ethnomusicology Department

Email: kathleenhood8@gmail.com

Website: http://kathleenhoodmusic.com/

Interests: Arab music, especially from Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria; North and West Africa

Richard Jankowsky
Associate Professor | Tufts University

Ala Kahla

Alan Karass
Dean | Columbus State University

Email: alanmkarass@gmail.com

Interests: Tunisia, festivals

Mohammad Moussa Khalaf
Artistic and Executive Director | Alkindi Music Center

Email: mmkhalaf10@gmail.com

Website: https://www.mmkhalaf.com

Interests: Arabic art music, Palestinian folk songs, Western European and Eastern Arab violin, performing arts and music education

Ari Marcus
PhD Student | CUNY

Interests: Maqam, Cairo, Jordan

Scott Marcus
Professor | University of California, Santa Barbara

Mahmoud Mashhoudi
Student in ethnomusicology | Tehran University of Arts

Email: m.mashhodi@gmail.com

Interests: Religious music in Islamic countries; music of the Arab people of the Khuzestan province of Iran; and music of North Africa, Iraq, Egypt and Shamat, the Gulf, and Mushhat Andalusia

David McDonald
Chair, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology | Indiana University

Email: davmcdon@indiana.edu

Website: https://folkethno.webhost.iu.edu/scripts/index.cfm

Interests: Arab music, popular music, music and violence, Palestinian resistance music, protest song, nationalism, anthropology of conflict, trauma, gender, social theory, critical ethnography, activism

Guilnard Moufarrej
Associate Professor | United States Naval Academy

Email: moufarre@usna.edu

Interests: Christian music and liturgy of the Middle East, music and protest, music and gender

Liza Munk
PhD Candidate | University of California, Santa Barbara

Philip J. Murphy
UC Santa Barbara, William and Mary

Email: hintsound@gmail.com

Interests: Islamic devotional practice, Sufi ritual and performance

Chris Nickell
Ph.D. Candidate | New York University

Email: cpn242@nyu.edu

Interests: Popular and independent musics of the Middle East and North Africa, Lebanon, feminist and queer theory, masculinity studies, affect, space and place, sound studies, foodways

David Notley
PhD student | Salford University

Email: d.j.notley@edu.salford.ac.uk

Interests: the Arab Spring, diaspora and their application to the British brass band idiom

Christopher Orr
Florida State University (alumnus)

Email: cco13@my.fsu.edu

Interests: Algeria, diaspora and colonialism, affect and emotion, embodiment, transmission, oral history, classical/urban musical traditions across North Africa

Jeremy Reed
PhD Candidate | Indiana University, Bloomington

Email: reedjer@iu.edu

Interests: Festivals, Jordan, nationalism, tourism

Maria M. Rijo Lopes da Cunha
D.I.D. Postdoctoral Research Fellow | University of Copenhagen

Hanna Salmon
PhD student | University of Texas, Austin

Email: hanna.a.salmon@gmail.com

Interests: Palestinian music, narrative, storytelling

Kendra Salois
Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology | American University

Email: salois@american.edu

Interests: Morocco, North Africa, trans-Saharan collaboration, music and diplomacy, late capitalism/neoliberalism

Andrea Shaheen
Associate Professor | Arizona State University

Email: Andrea.Shaheen@asu.edu

Interests: Syria, Lebanon, diaspora, migration, nostalgia, trauma

Jonathan H. Shannon
Professor & Chair, Department of Anthropology | Hunter College CUNY

Email: jonathan.shannon@hunter.cuny.edu

Interests: Arab Music, Musics of the Mediterranean, Andalusian Music, migration, aesthetics, Syria, Turkey, Europe

Shayna Silverstein
Assistant Professor | Northwestern University

Richard Smith
PhD student | University of Michigan

Email: rijsmith@umich.edu

Interests: Queerness, Palestine-Israel, fieldwork technology, historiography

Leila Tayeb

Ashley Thornton
PhD student | University of Texas, Austin

Email: anthornton@utexas.edu

Interests: Diaspora, music and trauma/violence, identity, Kurdish music

Andrea Vercoe
Director, World Music Ensemble | Towson University

Kira Weiss

Christopher Witulski
Associate Teaching Professor | Bowling Green State University

Email: cwitulski@bgsu.edu

Website: https://cwitulski.com

Interests: Sacred popular music in Morocco, analytical methodologies, gnawa music, and authenticity