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 post-socialist world. (413) 542-8469 • jengelhardt@amherst.edu
Kalin Kirilov, Lecturer of Music, University of Massachusetts. B.A. Academy of Music and Dance, Bulgaria, M.A., Ph.D. in Music, University of Oregon. Musics of Eastern Europe, Middle East, and India. Performance: Eastern European folk music ensembles and Gypsy (Romani) music of the Balkans. (413) 545-2279 • kkirilov@music.umass.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, 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,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, 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
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 post-socialist world.
Kalin Kirilov, Lecturer of Music, University of Massachusetts. B.A. Academy of Music and Dance, Bulgaria, M.A., Ph.D. in Music, University of Oregon. Musics of Eastern Europe, Middle East, and India. Performance: Eastern European folk music ensembles and Gypsy (Romani) music of the Balkans.
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.
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).