Faculty by Area
This page lists faculty members who teach classroom (non-performance) courses, organized by their areas of focus in research, writing, creative projects, and teaching. For a list of performance course instructors organized by the instruments or ensembles they teach, see: Faculty by Instrument and Ensemble.
Creative Practices
Composition: Alvarez, Beaudoin, Bynum, Casey, Chin, Dong, Fure, Moseley
Computer programming: Casey
Film scoring: Dong
Improvisation: Bynum, Casey, Cheng, Dong, Shabazz, Zsoldos
Music production and audio engineering: Alvarez, Casey, Fure, Nam
Songwriting: Alvarez
Sound art & sound installation: Fure, Martin
Geographic and Cultural Areas
African music: Shabazz
African American music: Bynum, Martin, Shabazz
American music: Levin, Martin, Swayne, Shabazz
Asian music: Dong, Levin
Balkan music: Levin
Caribbean music: Shabazz
Central Asian music: Levin
Chinese music: Dong
Latin American music: Chin, Shabazz
Russian music: Swayne
Siberian music: Levin
Styles and Genres
Contemporary music: Alvarez, Beaudoin, Bynum, Dong, Fure, Pinkas
Digital & electronic musics: Alvarez, Casey, Fure, Nam
Electroacoustic music: Casey, Dong, Fure
Hip-hop: Martin
Jazz: Bynum, Shabazz, Zsoldos
Musical theater: Alvarez, Swayne
Opera: Fure, Swayne
Popular music: Cheng, Martin, Swayne
World music and traditional music: Dong, Levin, Shabazz
Topics
Cultural heritage and NGOs: Levin
Music and AI: Casey
Music and digital games: Casey, Cheng
Music and disability: Cheng
Music and entrepreneurship: Messier
Music and ethics: Cheng, Swayne
Music and film: Dong
Music and gentrification: Martin
Music and medicine: Casey
Music and neuroscience: Casey, Swayne
Music and race: Cheng, Martin
Music and religion: Levin
Music and social justice: Cheng
Queer (ethno)musicology: Cheng