The Ethnomusicology Program consists of core courses in three areas: Regional Studies, including the Middle East, South Asia, Eastern Europe, American folk and vernacular music, Japan, Indonesia, and Mexico; Issues - such as anthropology of music, globalization, cosmopolitanism, tourism, sound studies, and gender studies; and Methods - such as theories and methods in ethnomusicology, fieldwork, tuning & temperament, and maqam. The program has the following performance ensembles: Middle East Ensemble, Music of India Ensemble, Indonesian Gamelan Ensemble, Gospel Choir, and periodically, a Polish Ensemble, an Appalachian Ensemble, and an Afro-Brazilian Ensemble. 

Learn more about the MA and the PhD Ethnomusicology degrees in the Music Department, Graduate Program section of UCSB's General Catalog.

Scott Marcus | Professor

Timothy J. Cooley | Professor

Ruth Hellier-Tinoco | Professor

David Novak | Associate Professor

Victor Bell | Continuing Lecturer

Hugo Macario | Lecturer

Richard North | Lecturer

Bahram Osqueezadeh | Lecturer

Susan Rudnicki | Lecturer

The Ethnomusicology Program takes great pride in students who have won prestigious academic positions and fellowships.

Kara Attrep | Bowling Green State University

James R. Carr | University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Sonja Downing | Lawrence University

Denise Gill | Washington University in St. Louis

Lillie Gordon | University of Tennessee Knoxville

Kenneth S. Habib | Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo   

Max Katz | College of William and Mary

Eve McPherson | Case Western Reserve University   

Katherine L. Meizel | Bowling Green State University

Jane Freeman Moulin | University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Gibb Schreffler | Pomona College

Sonja Downing | Fulbright Hays Fellowship and a Pacific Rim Fellowship for research in Bali

Eve McPherson | Fulbright Hays Fellowship for research in Turkey

Matt Dorman | Fulbright Fellowship for research in Finland

Katherine L. Meizel | Media, Religion and Culture Fellowship for research at University of Colorado, Boulder

Kara Attrep | Hagley Museum Dissertation Fellowship in Wilmington, Delaware

Max Katz | American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Research Fellowship for research in India

Gibb Schreffler | Fulbright Hays Fellowship for research in India

Denise Gill | Two-time Fulbright IIE for research in Turkey

Lillie Gordon | Fulbright Hays Fellowship for research in Egypt

Eric Ederer | Fulbright Hays Fellowship and ARCE Fellowship for research in Turkey

Phil Murphy | Fulbright IIE Graduate Fellowship and AIMS Fellowship for research in Morocco

Justin Scarimbolo | Fulbright Hays Fellowship for research in India

Hawaiian Music in Motion: Mariners, Missionaries, and Minstrels (University of Illinois Press, 2014)

Lineage of Loss: Counternarratives of North Indian Music (Wesleyan University Press, 2017)