People
- Core Faculty
- Joint Faculty
- Affiliated Faculty
- Emeriti Faculty
- Research Associate and Research Scholars
- Archives of Traditional Music (ATM)
- Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAAMC)
- Librarian
- Staff
2011-2012 Annual Faculty and Staff Photo
Front Row: Hasan El-Shamy, Ruth Stone, Pravina Shukla, Michelle Bright, Sheri Sherrill, Diane Goldstein, Michelle Melhouse, Sue Tuohy, Krystie Herndon, Verlon Stone
Back Row: David McDonald, Haya Bar-Itzhak, Fernando Orejuela, Judah Cohen, John McDowell, Chris Roush, Daniel Reed, Javier León
Photo by TALL + small Photography
Core Faculty
| Faculty Member | Contact | Research Interests | Video Profile |
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| Mellonee Burnim Professor; Director, Ethnomusicology Institute |
504 N. Fess 203 |
Black religious music and aesthetics; music in the African Diaspora | |
| Judah Cohen Associate Professor |
506 N. Fess 103 |
Music in Jewish life; American music; musical theater; popular culture; Caribbean Jewish history; diaspora; medical ethnomusicology | View Video |
| Hasan El-Shamy Professor |
506 N. Fess 101 |
The folk narrative and the ballad; typology; social structure; religion among the folk; mental health in traditional cultures; psychological approaches and folklore theory; Africa; the Middle East |
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| Michael Dylan Foster Associate Professor |
506 N. Fess 202 |
Japanese folklore, literature, and film; monster and supernatural studies; legend; folklore and popular culture; ritual and festival; tourism; Asian folklore |
View Video |
Diane Goldstein |
504 N. Fess 202 812-855-1168 |
Belief studies, folk medicine, folk religion, supernatural traditions, applied folklore, the ethnography of speaking, and narrative | |
| Jason Baird Jackson Associate Professor; Director, Mathers Museum of World Cultures |
508 N. Fess 301 via 206 |
Cultural endangerment and revitalization; material culture; belief and ritual; cultural history; verbal art; museum work; American and Native American Studies (Eastern North America) | |
| Javier F. León Assistant Professor |
508 N. Fess 205 |
Popular music; culture industries and neoliberalism; intangible cultural heritage policy; African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean; musics of the Andean region; music and nationalism | |
Portia K. Maultsby |
508 N. Fess 104 812-855-2708 maultsby  indiana.edu |
Popular music, the music industry, African American music; Musical aesthetics and transnationalism | |
| David McDonald Assistant Professor |
508 N. Fess 105 |
Israel/Palestine; performance ethnography; social theory; ethnomusicological study of violence and socio-cultural trauma |
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John H. McDowell |
506 N. Fess 201 |
Speech play and verbal art; the corrido of Greater Mexico; music, myth, and cosmology in the Andes; commemoration; folklorization; ethnopoetics; Latin America; the United States | |
| Fernando Orejuela Senior Lecturer |
504 N. Fess 204 |
Hip hop music and culture; popular music; subculture studies; body art; youth cultures; children’s folklore; sports; game and play in culture; popular culture; pedagogy; United States |
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Daniel B. Reed |
510 N. Fess |
Music and religion; identity; ritual performance; popular music; Africa; African immigrants to the United States | |
| Gregory A. Schrempp Associate Professor |
508 N. Fess 204 |
Myth, cosmology and worldview; comparative mythology; history of ideas; Oceania; North America | |
| Pravina Shukla Associate Professor; Director, Undergraduate Studies |
506 N. Fess 300 |
Folk art and material culture; body art; dress and costume; museum studies; food art and culture; India; Brazil; United States |
View Video |
| Ruth M. Stone Professor; Vice Provost for Research |
510 N. Fess 100A |
Music as culture and performance; theory of ethnomusicology; Africa; the Middle East | |
| Sue Tuohy Senior Lecturer |
508 N. Fess 106 |
Ethnomusicology; film and music; intellectual history; music and socio-political transformation; music and culture in contemporary China; East Asia |
Joint Faculty
| Faculty Member | Contact | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Beverly Stoeltje Professor |
Student Building 238 |
Ritual and festival; feminist theory; the American West; Ghana; West Africa |
Research Associate and Research Scholars
| Faculty Member | Contact | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Inta Carpenter Research Scholar (Retired) |
carpente |
Ethnic, exile, and diaspora identity; life story; cultural documentation /ethnography; applied folklore |
| Cornelia Fales Research Associate |
Ashton-Weatherly 304 |
Music cognition; timbre perception; historical concepts of timbre; music of Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Jon Kay Director, Traditional Arts Indiana |
501 N. Park 201 |
Indiana folklife; public folklore |
| Verlon Stone Research Associate |
510 N. Fess 300 |
Liberian collections |
Archives of Traditional Music
Indiana University
Morrison Hall 117 & 120
Bloomington, Indiana, USA 47405-3700
Telephone: (812) 855-4679
Fax: (812) 856-0193
| Faculty Member | Contact | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
Alan R. Burdette |
Morrison 117 |
American vernacular music and dance; performance studies; German American singing societies; media and technology |
| Mike Casey Associate Director, Recording Services |
812-855-8090 micasey indiana.edu |
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| Rachel Caswell Office Services Assistant |
812-855-4679 rcaswell indiana.edu |
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| Marilyn Graf Archivist |
812-855-8633 atmusic indiana.edu |
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| Suzanne Mudge Librarian |
812-855-8631 smudge indiana.edu |
Archives of African American Music and Culture
Indiana University
Smith Research Center, Suites 180-181
2805 E. Tenth Street
Bloomington Indiana 47408-2601
Phone: (812) 855-8547
Fax: (812) 856-0333
| Faculty & Staff | Contact | Areas of specialization |
|---|---|---|
| Portia K. Maultsby Director, Archives of African American Music and Culture |
maultsbyindiana.edu |
African-American popular music; music industry; Black music aesthetics and performance |
| Brenda Nelson-Strauss Head of Collections/Technical Services |
bnelsonsindiana.edu |
Performing arts archives and recorded sound collections |
| Ronda L. Sewald Administrator/Project Manager |
rsewaldindiana.edu |
Ethnographic sound archives and recordings; soundscape studies;, Middle Eastern music; historical ethnomusicology |
Folklore Librarian
| Faculty Member | Contact | Research Interests |
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Moira Marsh |
Main Library E760 |
Librarian for Anthropology, Folklore, Sociology, and Social Work; Witchcraft; humor |
