North Carolina State University

Dr. Alison E Arnold is an adjunct professor in the Music Department and the Division of Arts Studies at North Carolina State University. She completed her Bachelors degree in music at the University of Liverpool, England, and her Masters and Ph.D. (1991) in Musicology with a concentration in Ethnomusicology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on the history of popular Hindi film song, for which she carried out a year’s research in India supported by a junior fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies. As an enthnomusicologist, she is currently researching Vietnamese Montagnard music in North Carolina. She has presented conference papers and published articles on Montagnard music, Asian Indian and Indian American music, and has co-authored a World Music online course. She joined the music faculty at North Carolina State University in fall 2000, and currently teaches courses in Understanding Music (world music), Music of Asia, and Arts and Cross Cultural Contacts. She has taught World Music, American Music, and Music Appreciation at The Colorado College, Penn State University at Abington; Drexel University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Together with colleague Dr. Jonathan Kramer, she was nominated for the 2007-2008 Gertrude Cox award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching and Learning with Technology at NCSU, and was a member of the first FYI (First Year Inquiry) Teaching Award committee in Spring 2008. She edited the South Asia Volume of “The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music” (2000), and worked as an editor for Macmillan Publishers in London on “The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians” (1980). She served as Vice President and President of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Southeast and Caribbean Chapter 2002-2004, organizing a regional conference at North Carolina State University in 2004.