Edwin Seroussi (Ph.D in Music, UCLA, 1988) is the Emanuel Alexandre Professor Emeritus of Musicology and former director of the Jewish Music Research Centre at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and visiting scholar at Dartmouth College. He comes to Yale after holding a fellowship at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (2023-4). His research focuses on musical cultures of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, interactions between Jewish and Islamic cultures, Jewish liturgical music, Judeo-Spanish song, and popular music in Israel. Within these subjects he explores the process of hybridization, diaspora, nationalism, and transnationalism. His last book, Sonic Ruins of Modernity: Judeo-Spanish Folksongs Today (Routledge, 2023), stresses the agency of strategically-located individuals and their social networks, the role of recording technologies, and processes of reception and consumption in the shaping of contemporary popular music marketed as “folk.” At the ISM he will be working on a monograph on Sephardic religious music that summarizes his continuing engagement with this subject.