NOVA University of Lisbon

She earned her PhD in Ethnomusicology at Columbia University and is past President of the International Council for Traditional Music (2013 – 2021) and Professor Emerita of Ethnomusicology at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL) in Portugal.

She is founder, past president (1995 – 2020) and President Emerita of the Institute for Ethnomusicology – Center for Studies in Music and Dance at the same university. She was Vice-President of the Society for Ethnomusicology and the International Council for Traditional Music; and Vice Chancellor of the UNL. Before joining the UNL, she was assistant professor at New York University (1979 – 1982).

She was also visiting professor at Columbia University, Princeton University; Tinker Professor at the University of Chicago; Overseas Visiting Scholar at St. John’s College, Cambridge University; and Gulbenkian Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Among the honors and awards she received is the Glarean Award for music research of the Swiss Musicological Society (2013) and membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2024).

Her publications include: Music and the Making of Portugal and Spain since the Nineteenth Century (ed.) with Matthew Machin Autenrieth and Samuel Llano (2023). Transforming Ethnomusicology, 2 vols (ed.) with Beverely Diamond (2021); Portugal and Spain: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture, with Susana Moreno Fernández (2019); Enciclopédia da Música em Portugal no Século XX, 4 volumes (ed.) (2010); Traditional Arts in Southern Arabia: Music and Society in Sohar, Sultanate of Oman, with Dieter Christensen (2009).