Before coming to Yale, Bernard Gordillo was a resident scholar at the Center for Iberian and Latin American Music (CILAM) at the University of California, Riverside, where he received a Ph.D. in historical musicology in 2019. In addition to teaching, at Yale he will conduct research on music, Catholic social movements, and liberation theology in Central America after the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965) and pursue the completion of a book project entitled Canto de Marte: Art Music, Popular Culture, and U.S. Intervention in Nicaragua, under contract with the Oxford University Press Series Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music.
