CHRONOLOGY OF EDUCATION
1987 Ph.D. (Music-Ethnomusicology)
Columbia University in the City of New York, 1987
Dissertation title: Zarzuela in New York: Contributions of Lyric Theater to Hispanic Identity. Dissertation Advisor Dieter Christensen; committee: Peter Manuel, Leeman Perkins, Philip Silver, Lambros Comitas
1985 M. Phil. (Music with anthropology minor)
Columbia University in the City of New York
1980 M.A. (Music) Hunter College of the City University of New York
Thesis title: The Liederkranz in the 1970s: An ethnic music group in an urban environment. Concerned a German-American singing society in New York. Directors: Dieter Christensen, Barbara Hampton. Awarded the G.F. Schuster Award for outstanding masters thesis
1978 B.M. (cum laude) Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH
1976/1977 Cleveland Institute of Music, Special studies in piano performance with Eunice Podis
MAJOR FIELDS OF STUDY
Ethnomusicology, Musicology, Anthropology, Music Performance
CHRONOLOGY OF EMPLOYMENT
2001-present Associate Professor of Music, Studies in Ethnomusicology, Music in General Education. University of Arizona, School of Music and Dance
2006 (summer) Visiting Professor, Facultad de Musica, Universidad Autonoma de Tamaulipas, Mexico (Music Faculty, UAT)
2005 Sabbatical work, Consultant, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose, March-April.
2002-2004 Interim Associate Director, University of Arizona School of Music and Dance
1995-2001 Assistant Professor of Music, University of Arizona, School of Music and Dance
1997 Visiting Professor, Universidad de los Andes, Santa Fé de Bogotá, Colombia, summer session
1989-1995 Assistant Professor of Humanities, Louisiana Scholars’ College (State Interdisciplinary Honor's College), Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, Louisiana
1988-1989 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY
HONORS/AWARDS (past five years)
2004 Key Personnel Merit Award for Excellence, College of Fine Arts ($3000)
2003 Dean's Beyond the Call of Duty Award - College of Fine Arts ($1000)
SERVICE AND OUTREACH
LOCAL SERVICE/STATE OUTREACH
2007 Waila Festival Committee and Young Waila Musicians Workshop (Promoting the learning and sharing of Tohono O'odham Social Dance Music), annually since 1995
2006 Academic Decathlon, Lectured on Chinese Music; Canyon del Oro High School, Oct. 30
2006 Viva Mariachi Committee, for Tucson area event, UA Crowder Hall and Centennial Hall, Aug. 2-5
2005 UA Presents Youssou N'Dour - Pre-Concert Lecture concerning the music and life of Senegalese musician Youssou N'Dour. UA Women's Garden - Centennial Hall, Nov. 13
2004 Cultural Connections - Santa Cruz Arts in the Schools Project, collaborated with Elaine Mariolle, Education coordinator; visited Wade Carpenter Middle School in Nogales, AZ; identified and mentored graduate assistants who went out to the schools in Santa Cruz County, Jan.-May
2004 Red Carpet Day, organizer of this recruitment event for in-coming students and parents to UA and School of Music, Feb. 6
2003 Tucson Meet Yourself Festival Board
2002 Tucson Meet Yourself Festival Board
2003 Flinn Scholarship Reception
2003 National Merit Scholar Reception
NATIONAL SERVICE/INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH
2007 Board of Directors, College Music Society, Ethnomusicology Representative, term begins Nov. 2007
2007 Program Chair, College Music Society, Pacific Super Regional Meeting, for March 2008 meeting
2007 Program Chair and Conference Organizer, First Symposium on Latin American Choral Music, Contemporary Performance and the Colonial Legacy, Jan. 19-20
2007 Board of Directors, Society for Ethnomusicology, Secretary, since 2005
2007 International Initiatives Board, College Music Society, since 2005
2005 Casa Elisabet Orphanage - Violin and Music Instruction Program, Evaluated UA interface options with this orphanage and its violin instruction program in Imuri, Mexico, Nov. 19-20
2004 Chair, Local Arrangements, Society for Ethnomusicology, 49th Annual Meeting, Tucson, AZ, UA Host Institution, Nov. 3-7. Organized 652 registered attendees, 85 volunteer workers, managed budget of $35,000 for conference arrangements
2004 Program co-chair, Pre-conference symposium on Music and Dance, preceding the 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology
2004 President, Southwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Representing scholars from Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah, also in 200
2003 Local Arrangements and Program Chair-Joint Meeting of the Southwestern Chapter Meeting of the Society for
Ethnomusicology, Rocky Mountain Chapter of the American Musicological Society, and the Society for Music Theory, UA School of Music, April 11-12
2002 National Chapters Coordinator, Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), Coordinated nine national and international chapters representing 2000 SEM members, since 1999
2001 Program Chair, College Music Society, Annual Meeting Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 15-18. Serving over 9000 members with 500 attendees; reviewed 250 proposals and led 10 person board
DEPARTMENTAL/COMMITTEE SERVICE
2007-2008 Area Coordinator, Doctoral Minor in Music in General Education, since 1995
2007-2008 Honors Coordinator for School of Music, since 1995
2006-2007 School of Music Promotion and Tenure Committee (including all faculty annual reviews), Chair
2005-2006 School of Music Promotion and Tenure Committee (including all faculty annual reviews), Committee Member
2005-2006 Music Education Search for Asst. Prof. Instrumental Music, Committee Member
2005-2006 Music Theory Search, Committee Member
2004-2005 School of Music Faculty Advisory Committee, Member
2004-2005 Friends of Music at the University of Arizona School of Music and Dance, Chaired this donor recognition group
2004-2005 Music Advisory Board Steering Committee, Member
2002-2003 School of Music Faculty Advisory Committee, Member
2002-2003 Director's Search Committee, Member
2002-2003 School of Music Advisory Board, Member
1999-2005 School of Music Graduate Committee, Member
1999-2000 Director's Search Committee, Member
COLLEGE COMMITTEE SERVICE
2005-2006 School of Theater Arts Accreditation and UA Program Review Committee
2001-2002 College of Fine Arts Diversity Task Force
2001-2002 College of Fine Arts Advisory Committee
UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE SERVICE
2006 Best Practices in Honors Teaching Committee
2005-2006 Tinker Foundation Review Committee
2005-2006 Honors College Associate Dean Search Committee
2004-2005 Humanities Division Tenure Review Committee
1998-2003 Graduate Council, member, GTA Sub-committee for prepared a university-wide handbook for graduate teaching assistants, 2000-2001
1996-1997 Chair, University-wide Committee on Undergraduate Education Committee
OTHER COMMITTEES OR SERVICE (EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL)
2007 University of North Carolina Wilmington, peer review, promotion and tenure outside reviewer
2007 University of Georgia, peer review, promotion and tenure outside reviewer (two candidates)
2006 UA Presents Education Lecturer, annually since 1995
2006 University of Illinois Press, peer reviewer
2006 Oxford University Press, peer reviewer
2006 Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, peer reviewer
2004 Scripps College Promotion and Tenure, promotion and tenure outside reviewer
2004 California Historical Society, Outside Reviewer
2004 Oxford University Press, outside reviewer
2003 La Vida en Artes, Arts in Education Outreach Program in Santa Cruz County, Mentored Graduate Student Intern
2003 University of Oklahoma, outsider reviewer for promotion and tenure
PUBLICATIONS
SCHOLARLY BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
2000 Zarzuela: Spanish Operetta, American Stage. Chicago and Urbana: University of Illinois Press
CHAPTERS IN SCHOLARLY BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
2003 Technology and Identity in Colombia Popular Music: Tecno-macondoismo in Carlos Vives' Approach to Vallenato, in Music and Technoculture, edited by Rene Lysloff and Leslie C. Gay, 153-181. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press
2000 Iberian Music in the United States, Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Vol. 3, The United States & Canada, edited by Ellen Koskoff, 847-853. New York: Garland Press
REFERRED JOURNALS AND ARTICLES PUBLISHED OR ACCEPTED
2008 Nostalgia for the Future: The New Song Movement in Nicaragua, in Latin American Popular Culture: An Introduction, second edition, edited by William Beezley and Linda Curcio, Wilmington: SR Books, in press, scheduled for release in 2008
2007 Review of Arriba Suena Marimba! Currulao Marimba Music from Colombia by Grupo Naidy (Smithsonian Folkways, 2005) in Ethnomusicology, 551/3:553-556.
2004 Review of web Music in the Afghan North, 1967-1972 Field material and texts by Mark Slobin. URL: http://learningobjects. wesleyan.edu/afghanistan, Yearbook for Traditional Music, 221-223
2004 Review of Cuban Music from A to Z by Hector Orovio. Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, 8
2000 Review Essay: Assessing Music, Race and Nation: Musica Tropical in Colombia by Peter Wade, Current Musicology 69: 171-181
1997 Report on the Nitra Conference (the 34th World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music) Bulletin of the International Council for Traditional Music, 91
1999 From American Indian Dance Music to Video Games: Re-thinking Instructional Methods.American String Teacher, 49: 78-84
1997 Movement Analysis as a Tool for Understanding Identity: Retentions, Borrowings, and Transformations in Native American Waila. The World of Music, 39/ 3: 51-70.
1994 Old World Genres, New World Performance Traditions: The Zarzuela in the United States, Report of the Fifteenth Congress of the International Musicological Society, Madrid, 1992, vol. 2-Study Sessions
1993 Asserting Tradition: The Building and Maintenance of the African-American Baptist Rock Ceremony in Northeast Louisiana, Louisiana Folklife, 17:24-31
1992 Music and the Dimension of Depth.nterdisciplinary Humanities, 51-56.
1986 Zarzuela Productions in New York. Yearbook for Traditional Music,18:103-115
1986 Advertising and Latin Music at a New York City Jazz Club: Interrelationships that Shape the Musical Event, Current Musicology, 38:159-167
ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS
2008 Movement and the 'creative gap' in musical performance, Sonograma, 1; www.webdemusica.org/sonograma/pdf/Sturman_Movement.pdf
2007 Sturman, Janet, ed. Contemporary Performance and the Colonial Legacy: Proceedings of the First Symposium on Latin American Choral Music, University of Arizona, January 2007. Tucson: UA School of Music, Center for Latin American Music
http://web.cfa.arizona.edu/sturman/CLAM/Pub1/
2006 Report - Congreso 2006: Popular Musics of the Hispanic and Lusophone Worlds, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Hispanic and Lusophone Music Study Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/sacs/POP/hispluso/report.htm [not peer reviewed]
WORK IN PROGRESS
2008 Assessing Disciplinary Integration in New Anthropological Studies of Music, Reviews in Anthropology, 38 (1) (50 pages), article completed and accepted, scheduled for publication in spring 2008
2008 Anchor article on United States, entries on decima, schottische, zarzuela, Encyclopedia of Latin American Popular Music. Contracted articles submitted 9/1/07, publication date estimated fall 2008
2007 Sturman, Janet, ed. Contemporary Performance and the Colonial Legacy: Proceedings of the First Symposium on Latin American Choral Music, University of Arizona, January 2007. Tucson: UA School of Music, in final editing stages
2007 La Orquesta de la Papaya: A Central American musical response to globalization, Popular Music, accepted for publication, pending revisions
n.d. Vistas Musicales: Sustaining Cultural Patrimony in Harmony with Economic Development, collaborative initiative to document and distribute regional music from Costa Rica and Nicaragua, begun Summer 2004, funding delays have stalled the project
n.d. Guia Ethnografia Musical [A Guidebook for Music Ethnography - Practical Advice for Teachers and Students of Ethnomusicology]. Tampico: Universidad Autonoma de Tamaulipas, begun 2006, writing still in progress
PERFORMANCES
2004 Un Encuentro con Zarzuela (An Encounter with Zarzuela), Spring Concert, director, arranger, conductor, pianist Crowder Hall, School of Music, April 15. Concert featured scenes and arias from zarzuelas (Spanish language operetta) from different time periods and countries. Performers included Betty Allen, Stella Markou, Sara Evans, Ashleigh Guida, Grayson Hirst, Linus Lerner, Christopher Herrera, Maya Abela, Meredith Pedde, Michael Ronstadt, Pablo Rosas, Gonzalo Andres Molano, Jason Curley, Keith Pawlak
RADIO
2003 Musica Continental - Programa 1: Espana de Costa Rica; Radio Universidad, KUAT
TELEVISION
2003 Celebrate Music and Dance at the University of Arizona: A series of 4 Public Access Television broadcasts introducing the Tucson community to events and concerts, summer fare, educational outreach, auditions and careers aired on public access channels, Mar. 12, Mar. 26, April 9 and 23, and in on-going rotation
RECORDINGS
2002 Bear Down, Arizona! A compilation of diverse arrangements of the beloved fight song composed by Jack Lee. Presented by the students, faculty and alumni of the University of Arizona School of Music and Dance. Executive Producers: Janet Sturman, Lee Furr and Rex Woods. UACD100102 Compact disc
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS (since 2000)
COLLOQUIA
2005 Course Structure for a Plan of Study for a Bachelor's Degree in Music Research, Faculty, School of Fine Arts, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica, April 15
2005 Colloquium on Internet Music Publishing, represented the UA School of Music at an Internet Music Publishing
Colloquium that brought together collaborators from Stanford U., Harvard, Yale, U. of Illinois, Ohio State, Arizona State U. and Brigham Young U. Brigham Young University, Sept. 23-24
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (All peer-reviewed for program selection)
2007 Pre-expressive Performance Strategies: Lessons from Thai Music and Dance, College Music Society International Conference, Bangkok and Ayuthaya, Thailand, July 21
2006 Preserving the 'creative gap': Lessons from historical, non-western, and contemporary performance practices. Fifty-first annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Honolulu, Hawaii, Nov. 18
2006 “Traveling with La Orquesta de la Papaya: A Central American Response to Global, National, and Local Dynamics,†International Congress on Popular Musics of the Hispanic and Lusophone Worlds, Newcastle, Great Britain, July 14
2006 Orchestra as Embassy: An Integrative Response to Globalization, Joint Regional Conference of the Society for Ethnomusicology, the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory,†Lamont School of Music, University of Denver, Colorado, April 1
2005 œRegional Music in a Modern and Global Context, The First International Forum on Music Education: Music in the Third Millenium, Nov. 8-9 2005, Facultad de Música de la Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Mexico, invited keynote speaker for Nov. 6
2005 New developments in Central American ethnomusicology, Fiftieth-Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Atlanta, Nov. 18
2003 Border Strategies: Creating New Opportunities for Musical Exchange with Latin America, International Meeting of the College Music Society, San Jose and Muelle, Costa Rica, June 25
2003 Mexican and Mexican-American Traditions, Southwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusciology. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, April 12
2003 Top Ten Lists: Mediating Conflicting Methodologies, Presentation at the Cultural Crossroads Conference, Combined Annual Meeting of the College Music Society and the Society for Ethnomusicology, Miami, Florida, Oct. 2
2002 Teaching Native American Music in the University, Session chair, College Music Society, Kansas City, MO, Sept. 27
2002 Digitization Dilemmas: The University of Arizona; Music of the Southwest Online Initiative, Music Library Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, Feb. 20
2001 Confronting the past, shaping the future: Ethnomusicology, Technology and Traditional Music. Panel of papers, served as panel organizer and presenter, along with Leslie Gay, Jr. (U. Tennessee) and Robert Bowman (U. Toronto). Thirty-sixth World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 5
2001 Returning to the Source: Hispanic Music from the Americas in the Reconstruction of Cultural Identity, “ Served as panel organizer and mentor for UA alumni presenters: Estibaliz Gastesi. (Gove School, Bel Glade Florida) and Lizary Rodriguez and Oscar Macchioni (U. Arizona). Thirty-sixth World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 5
COMMUNITY PRESENTATIONS
2005 Sun Valley Spanish Community Spanish Association - “Zarzuela and Spanish opera in Tucson and the Southwestern U.S.†Jan. 12
2004 Arizona Historical Society, Desert Harmonies II - Fall Lecture Series: Zarzuela and Spanish opera in Tucson and the Southwestern U.S.,†Nov. 17
2002 New Musical Mixtures, UA Presents, Pre-concert talk. Aerospace and Engineering Auditorium, Nov. 10
GRANTS AND CONTRACTS (All PI, unless indicated)
2006 International Travel Grant (to participate in the International Congress on Popular Music of the Luso-Hispanic World), $700, July
2006 School of Music Out of State Travel Award to support participation at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology in Honolulu, $375
2005 Honors College Incentive Grant, $5000
2005 School of Music Out-of-State Travel Award to support participation at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology in Atlanta, $458
2004 College of Fine Arts Small Grant $2500 to support hosting the 49th annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, matched with $2500 by the School of Music, supplemented by $1750 from various UA divisions, total $6750
2004 Glassman Foundation Grant for visiting artists, co-PI with Gary Cook to bring Ghananian percussionist Bernard Woma to UA School of Music, $1500
2003 Tinker Foundation Grant for Faculty Travel Grant to participate in the International Meeting of the College Music Society in Costa Rica, June, $500
2003 Fine Arts Travel Grant to attend the Annual Meeting the of College Music Society in Kansas City, MO, $300
2003 CFA Small Grant to support the Music Scholars' Conference, $200
2001 International Travel Grant to participate in the ICTM meetings in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, $700
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