Jeffers Engelhardt

Jeffers Engelhardt is an ethnomusicologist and the Karen and Brian Conway ’80, P’18 Presidential Teaching Professor of Music at Amherst College, where he is affiliated with programs in Film and Media Studies, European Studies, and the Five College Certificate in Ethnomusicology. He researches the relationship of music, religion, secularity, and media; music and voice in Estonian culture and society; and music in Europe and the Finno-Ugric world. His current book project is Music and Religion (Oxford University Press). His research has been supported by the Social Science Research Council and Fulbright-Hays and Woodrow Wilson Foundation fellowships. Jeffers Engelhardt holds a BM in Piano from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (1998) and an MA (2000) and PhD (2005) in Ethnomusicology from the University of Chicago. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Journal of Music and Religion.