Prof. Dr. Sarah M. Ross
Professor for Jewish Music Studies
Since October 2015:
Professor for Jewish Music Studies at the European Centre for Jewish Music, Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media
2009–2015:
University Assistant for Cultural Anthropology of Music at the Institute of Musicology and Head of the study program World Arts at the Center for Cultural Studies (now Center for Global Studies), University of Bern
2006–2009:
German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – DFG) scholarship and doctorate at the DFG post-graduate program "Kulturkontakt und Wissenschaftsdiskurs" ("Cultural Encounters and Discourses of Scholarship"), Rostock University of Music and Drama. Doctoral thesis: "Performing the Political in American Jewish-Feminist Music"
December 2004:
Winner of the Hadassah-Brandeis-Institute Research Award, Brandeis University, USA
2001–2004:
Studies in Ethnomusicology, Jewish Studies and Classical Archaeology at the University of Cologne. Master's thesis: "Zum Gesang jüdischer Frauen im Kontext des Rosh Chodesh Rituals" ("Jewish Women's Songs in the Context of the Rosh Chodesh Ritual")
1997–2001:
Studies in Historical Musicology, European Ethnology and Classical Archaeology at Kiel University/Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
1997–2001:
Studium der Historischen Musikwissenschaft, Europäischen Ethnologie und Klassischen Archäologie an der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Main areas of research
- Jewish Music
- Music and Religion
- Ethnomusicological Gender Studies
- Popular Music Research
- Cognitive Ethnomusicology
Selected Publications
- Auswahl Publikationen Sarah M Ross.pdf (pdf Datei,161 K)
Contact
Prof. Dr. Sarah Maria Ross
Professor of Jewish Musicology, Director of the European Centre of Jewish Music
Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, European Center for Jewish Music
Villa Seligmann, Hohenzollernstraße 39, 30161 Hannover
2. OGPhone: +49 (0)511 3100-7120
sarah.ross@hmtm-hannover.de
Last modified: 2017-11-24
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