Researchers

Dr. R. Keith Sawyer is the Morgan Distinguished Professor in Educational Innovations at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is one of the world’s leading scientific experts…

Pauline Oliveros (1932 – 2016), was a distinguished composer and improviser who performed extensively locally and in many parts of the world in a variety of venues. She coined the…

Winfried Siemerling is Professor of English at the University of Waterloo and an Associate of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard. He is currently completing his monograph The Black Atlantic…

George E. Lewis is the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University. The recipient of a 2002 MacArthur Fellowship, a 1999 Alpert Award in the Arts, a…

Dr. Lisa Lorenzino serves as the Chair of the Music Education Department at the Schulich School of Music. Dr. Lorenzino received her Ph.D. from the University of Alberta in 2006…

Deborah Wong is an ethnomusicologist and Professor of Music at the University of California, Riverside. She specializes in the musics of Asian America and Thailand and has written two books,…

George Lipsitz is Professor of Black Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Along with Daniel Fischlin and Ajay Heble he is co-author of The Fierce Urgency…

Dr. Marta McCarthy, is an Associate Professor at the University of Guelph, where she has been directing the choirs and teaching musicianship and music education/pedagogy for seventeen years. She is…

Beverley Diamond is the Canada Research Chair in Ethnomusicology at Memorial University of Newfoundland where she established the Research Centre for the Study of Music, Media, and Place (MMaP). She…

Eric Lewis is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, where he is also the Director of the Laboratory of Urban Culture. He was Director of the Institute for…