B.M. 2005 (double majored in music performance and English literature), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; M.A. in Ethnomusicology, Columbia University (May 2008)

Sara is the treasurer for the Mid-Atlantic Chapter for the Society of Ethnomusicology and the jazz assistant for the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program at Columbia. She is currently finishing the requirements for the M.A. in Ethnomusicology. Her thesis is entitled, "Music, Modesty, and Socialization at an Orthodox Jewish Girls' School: The Musical Life of Bais Yaakov of Boro Park." For future research, Sara wishes to explore the role of music and other performing arts in cultural and linguistic revitalization movements in contemporary indigenous communities.

(M.A, African American Studies, Columbia University; Certificate of Graduate Study, Musicology, Duke University; B.A. African American Studies, high honors, Oberlin College; B.M. Voice Performance, Oberlin Conservatory of Music). Marti's research focuses on singing, race and repertoire in the United States. Her current ethnographic work investigates how Japanese Americans construct a black vocal aesthetic through singing spirituals in Harlem. Marti won the Langston Hughes Thesis Award for the Humanities for her M.A. thesis titled "Concert Spirituals' Minstrel Inheritance." She has served as adjunct faculty at the Seton Hall University Department of Art and Music.  read more »

Farzaneh Hemmasi is a doctoral candidate in ethnomusicology at Columbia University. Her dissertation focuses on Iranian popular musicians and media producers in the North American and European diaspora and their methods and motivations for creating mediated musical products and on- and off-line social networks that aim to reach the Iranian transnation and forward a social and  read more »