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Areas of expertise: Ethnomusicology, Ethnography, Asian Music, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Biography, Education and Training
B.M., Peabody Conservatory, Institute of the Johns Hopkins University M.Mus., Goldsmiths College, University of London Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
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brenneis@ucsc.edu
831-459-3855
Areas of expertise: Anthropology, Linguistics, Ethnomusicology, Sound, Folklore, Folk Music
Biography, Education and Training
Donald Brenneis is a linguistic and social anthropologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He studied anthropology as an undergraduate at Stanford and received his Ph.D. from Harvard. His work has focused on the social life of communicative practices—linguistic, musical, performative, and textual. He worked in a South Asian diasporic community in Fiji over a 20-year period, examining the relationships among language, music, conflict, law, and politics—and cons... more »
Areas of expertise: Italian Studies, Film, History, Literature, Ethnomusicology
Biography, Education and Training
A native of Italy, I graduated from the University of Bari, Italy, with a degree in Foreign Languages and Literature, majoring in English. I taught for several years at UC Davis and then moved to UC Santa Cruz where I have been teaching all levels of Italian for over two decades. I have an immense dedication for teaching, one of my goals is to provide my students with language skills that they may not encounter in the textbook. This includes using idioms and common catch phrases/words. I ... more »
Areas of expertise: Folk Music, Music, Nationalism, Asian Music, Diversity, Ethnomusicology, Middle Eastern Music, Personal and Social Identities
Biography, Education and Training
Shireen is a Canadian-American-Iranian PhD Candidate and Teaching Fellow in Cross-Cultural Musicology at UCSC. She earned her BA at University of British Columbia in Interdiscipinary Studies (2006), an Associate's Degree in Violin and Classical Voice from Vancouver Community College (2019), and a Master of Arts from UCSC (2022). Shireen completed the UCSC Teaching and Learning Center's Graduate Pedagogy Fellowship program which recognizes leadership in utilizing and promoting effective and equit... more »
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