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Edmund Campion sitting at a piano

music, composition, musical application of computer technologies

Carmine during a rehearsal of his opera "Pane, sale, sabbia"

Carmine Emanuele Cella

mathematical representation of musical and acoustic signals, music composition

Ken Ueno at EMPAC with feedback bowl

Ken Ueno

music composition, decolonizing music, noise, sound installations, music of Japan, extended vocal techniques, overtone singing, musical culture of Japan, experimental improvisation

Milnes with the UCBSO in Europe

music, directing, orchestral conducting technique, music ensemble

Matthew Evan Taylor

music composition

Lester Hu

Europe, East Asia, Inner Asia, music, history of music theory

Nicholas Mathew

Nicholas Mathew

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music in Europe and its colonies, music and politics, political economy of sound media, pianos and pianism, music and materialism, Beethoven, Haydn, music in Vienna, London, aesthetics, piano performance, historical performance practices

medieval and renaissance music, history of music theory, history of religion, manuscript studies, obscenity

photo of Professor Smart

opera and politics, music and data, music and language, theater, gender, opera, performance, singers, voice, staging of opera, 19th century music, 19th century Italy

Myra Melford by Marco Guigliarelli, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, 2019

music composition, improvisational practices, piano

James Quail leaning over a park sign that reads "QUAIL"

James Q. Davies

19th century music, political ecology, performance studies, pianism, vocal knowledge, medical anthropology, historical materialism

Fumi Okiji

Dept of Rhetoric

Black study, Frankfurt School Critical Theory, sound and music studies, aesthetics

Dept of Anthropology

media, music, Indigenous Australia, ethnographic film, cinema, urban studies, fire ecology

Juan David Rubio Restrepo

ethnomusicology, sound and music studies, Latin American studies, theories of decolonization, critical race studies, Science and Technology studies, media technologies

Andrew F. Jones

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

East Asian languages and cultures, Chinese popular music, sonic culture, media technology, modern Chinese fiction, children's literature, literary translation

Jocelyne Guilbault

Jocelyne Guilbault

power relations, global industrialization, labor practices, work ethics in Caribbean popular musics, diaspora, cultural entrepreneurship

Abe smiling while standing by an oak tree near the music department building.

Marié Abe

sound and space, ethnography, human geography, sound studies, music and social movements, affect and the body, Japanese popular performing arts, critical ocean studies, public ethnomusicology

Timothy Hampton in an outdoor setting

Timothy Hampton

Dept of Comparative Literature

culture, politics, English, comparative literature, popular music, history of emotion, French, renaissance and early modern European culture, romance languages, ideology of literary genre, literary construction of nationhood, rhetoric of historiography

Ethan Katz

Dept of History

Jewish history, modern France, empire, Jewish-Muslim relations, secularism

Michael Lucey delivering a lecture.

Dept of Comparative Literature

the novel, sexuality studies, comparative literature, French, French literature, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, British literature and culture, social and literary theory, cultural studies of music, studies of language in use, linguistic anthropology, theories of practice, twentieth-century American literature

Egyptian Museum Turin, facsimile of the Book of the Dead of Iuefankh

Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures

Egyptology, afrofuturism, magic, demonology, digital humanities, 3D modeling, virtual reality, prison higher education, ritual and religion, reception history

William Lester, Jr.

William A. Lester, Jr.

Dept of Chemistry

theoretical and physical chemistry, advances in basic theory, computational methods, study of molecular electronic structure, quantum Monte Carlo method, Born-Oppenheimer approximation

Dept of Ethnic Studies

art, aesthetics and visual culture, transnational feminist and queer of color theories, Arab diaspora, Muslim diaspora, militarism, critical race theory, critical postcolonial theory, Anthropocene, extractive economies and petrocultures

Jonathan Wurtele

Jonathan Wurtele

Dept of Physics

physics, stability, plasma theory, advanced accelerator concepts, intense laser-plasma interaction, the basic equilibrium, radiation properties of intense charged particle beams, simulation and the development of proof-of-principle experiments

Dept of City & Regional Planning

water, sanitation, basic services delivery, food justice, urban agriculture, poverty alleviation, environmental sustainability, environmental justice, urban governance, participatory planning, community-based development, international development, development planning, sustainable development, African studies