TIMOTHY MURRAY
CURRICULUM VITAE (CV PDF)
CURRENT POSITIONS
2021 - Present — University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Adjunct Faculty, Ethnomusicology, School of Music
2021 - Present — University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL
Adjunct Faculty, Ethnomusicology/Ethnomusicology
2023 - Present — Santa Fe College, Gainesville, FL
Adjunct Lecturer, World Music, Music Department
EDUCATION
2021 Ph.D., University of Florida, Ethnomusicology
Primary Cognate: Anthropology
Interdisciplinary Cognate: Anthropology
Dissertation: “Inuit Drum Dancing and the Tactics of Well-Being: Cultural Competence, Intergenerational
Isolation, and an Emerging Taskscape in an Arctic Settlement”
Committee Chair: Larry Crook
2017 MA, University of Florida, Ethnomusicology
Cognate: Anthropology
Thesis: “Thunder in the Valley: Liminality, Emotion, and the Embodiment of Place in the Muster
Soundscapes of the Connecticut River Valley Fife and Drum Tradition”
Committee Chair: Larry Crook
2003 BA, University of North Texas, English Literature
PUBLICATIONS
Monograph: Murray, Timothy E., 2023. Inuit Drum Dancing and the Tactics of Well-Being: Cultural Competence, Intergenerational Isolation, and an Emerging Taskscape in an Arctic Settlement. Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield.
Book chapter: Murray, Timothy E., 2021. “Soundscapes of Tradition: Ancient Fifing and Drumming, and the Embodiment of Place in the Connecticut River Valley.” L. Lohman, Ed., Researching Secular Music and Dance in the Early United States. Routledge.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2023
Healing Heart, Healing Mind: Theorizing the Effects of Bilateral Stimulation on Psychosocial Trauma in Inuit Music and Dance. International Presentation: Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) Annual Meeting. Toronto, Canada. October 2023.
2022
“Less of a Performance than a Kinship: Inuit Drum Dance, Cultural Competence, and the Metacommunication of Ihuma in the Inuit Community of Ulukhaktok.” National Presentation: Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) Annual Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana. November 2022.
“Faculty Life at an R1 Institution” Invited panelist: University of Florida Center for Teaching Excellence. October 2022.
“Soundings” Ethnographic Evidence in the Americas: On the Aesthetics of Methods and Crafting of Claims. Center for Latin American Studies 70th Annual Conference. Soundings workshop/panel presentation with Alex Vilati. March 2022.
2020
“Old Tool, New Purpose: Inuit Drum Dancing as an Adaptive Response to Intergenerational Isolation.” National Presentation: Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) Annual Meeting.
2018
“Tactics for Well-being: The Impacts of Inuit Drum Dancing on Psychological Wellbeing in the Canadian Arctic. “National Presentation: Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
“Playing Through: The Adaptive Application of Inuit Drum Dance to Social Issues in the post-settlement Canadian Arctic.” Symposium Presentation: University of North Texas Graduate Association of Musicologists and Theorists (GAMuT) Conference, Denton, Texas.
2016
“Interactions of Space, Place, Music, and Identity in the Ancient Fife and Drum Community of the Connecticut River Valley.” International Presentation: Society for Ethnomusicology, Southeast and Caribbean Chapter (SEMSEC) Annual Meeting, University of Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago. March 2016.
2015
“Fifes, Drums, and the Abstract Truth: Ancientness as a Matrix for Identity in the Ancient Fife and Drum Musical Communities of the Connecticut River Valley.” Symposium Presentation: Southern Graduate Music Research Symposium, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. September.
“Connecting Identity and Place through the Phenomenology of Fifes and Drums.”
Symposium Presentation: University of North Texas Graduate Association of Musicologists and Theorists (GAMuT) Conference, Denton, Texas. September.
2014
“Fifes-Made-of-Houses: Phenomenology and the Ancient Fife and Drum Field Music Community of the Connecticut River Valley.” Symposium Presentation: University of Florida Student Society for Musicology, 5th Annual Music and Meaning Research Symposium. University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE (UF, UNF, SFC)
University of Florida
2024
Adjunct Lecturer, Research & Creativity @UF: Undergraduate Honors Research (Serving 300 students). Summer 2024
Adjunct Lecturer, Graduate Seminar Course title African Popular Music and Globalization, Spring 2024
2023
Adjunct Lecturer, Introduction to Ethnomusicology Graduate Seminar (Live), Fall 2023
Adjunct Lecturer, Music, Identity, and a Sense of Place, Graduate Student Seminar (Live), Fall 2023
Adjunct Lecturer, Introduction to World Musics (Live), Spring 2023
2022
Adjunct Lecturer, Theoretical Perspectives in Ethnomusicology Graduate Seminar (Live), Fall 2022
Adjunct Lecturer, Introduction to World Musics (Live), Fall 2022
2021
Adjunct Lecturer, Experiencing Music (Live), Fall 2021
Instructor, Experiencing Music, Spring 2021
Instructor, Introduction to World Musics, Spring 2021
2020
Instructor, Introduction to World Musics, Fall 2020
Graduate Assistant, Experiencing Music, Fall 2020
Instructor, Introduction to World Musics, Summer A 2020
Graduate Assistant, Introduction to World Musics, Spring 2020
Graduate Assistant, Experiencing Music, Spring 2020
2019
Instructor, Introduction to World Musics, Fall 2019
Graduate Assistant, Experiencing Music, Summer B 2019
Graduate Assistant, Experiencing Music, Summer A 2019
Graduate Assistant, Experiencing Music, Spring 2019
2018 Graduate Assistant, Experiencing Music, Fall 2018
Graduate Assistant, Popular Music in the USA, Summer B 2018
Graduate Assistant, Popular Music in the USA, Summer A 2018
Instructor, Introduction to World Musics, Spring 2018
2017
Instructor, Introduction to World Musics, Fall 2017
Instructor, Introduction to World Musics, Summer B 2017
Graduate Assistant, Introduction to World Musics, Summer A 2017
Graduate Assistant, Experiencing Music, Spring 2017
2016
Instructor, Introduction to World Musics, Fall 2016
Graduate Assistant, Experiencing Music, Fall 2016
Graduate Assistant, Introduction to World Musics, Summer B 2016
Graduate Assistant, Popular Music in the USA, Summer A 2016
Graduate Assistant, Jacaré Brazil Ensemble, Spring 2016
2015
Graduate Assistant, Popular Music in America, Fall 2015
Graduate Assistant, Introduction to World Musics, Summer B 2015
Graduate Assistant, Introduction to World Musics, Summer A 2015
Instructor, Jazz History, Spring 2015
2014
Graduate Assistant, History of Jazz (Approx. 600 students online), Fall 2014
Graduate Assistant, History of Jazz (Approx. 300 students online), Summer B 2014
Graduate Assistant, History of Jazz (Approx. 300 students online), Summer A 2014
Graduate Assistant, History of Jazz (Approx. 600 students online), Spring 2014
2013
Graduate Assistant, History of Jazz (Approx. 600 students online), Fall 2013
University of North Florida
2024
Adjunct Lecturer, African American Musical Heritage (Online), Spring 2024
Adjunct Lecturer, Introduction to World Musics (Online), Spring 2024
2023
Adjunct Lecturer, African American Musical Heritage (Online), Fall 2023
Adjunct Lecturer, Introduction to World Musics (Online), Spring 2023
2022
Adjunct Lecturer, African American Musical Heritage (Online), Fall 2022
Adjunct Lecturer, African American Musical Heritage (Online), Spring 2022
Adjunct Lecturer, Introduction to World Musics (Online), Spring 2022
Santa Fe College
2024
Adjunct Lecturer, Introduction to World Music (2 sections), Spring 2024
2023
Adjunct Lecturer, Introduction to World Music (2 sections), Fall 2023
ENSEMBLE LEADERSHIP
University of Florida
2024
Director, African Popular Music Ensemble, Spring 2024
2023
Director, African Popular Music Ensemble, Fall 2023
RESEARCH AND FIELDWORK
Field Research for PhD June 2018 – February 2020
Conducted continuing field research in Ulukhaktok, N.T., Canada.
Studied impacts of Inuit Drum Dancing on psychosocial well-being of drum dance participants.
Research Assistantship July – August 2018
Served as a field research assistant for Dr. Peter Collings (UF Anthropology) in Ulukhaktok, N.T., Canada. Assisted with ethnographic interviews for study on local meanings of stress and wellness in the Arctic. Conducted exploratory field research for Ph.D.
Field Research for MA Thesis July 2014, October 2015
Conducted continuing ethnographic field research on the “Ancient” fife and drum community of the Connecticut River Valley. Moodus, Connecticut. Researched the influence of place on identity within Connecticut River Valley's ancient fife and drum community.
AWARDS AND HONORS
2020
The Society for Ethnomusicology Charlotte Frisbie Student Paper Prize for Indigenous Music Research
2019
Firebird Foundation Fellowship for Anthropological Research for dissertation research in Ulukhaktok, N.T., Canada (Award: $10,000)
2018
UF Graduate School Doctoral Research Travel Grant (Award: $6,000).
Funding for travel to Ulukhaktok, N.T., Canada, for dissertation research.
UF Board of College Councils Travel Grant (Award: $175)
2017
UF Department of Music Travel Grant (Award: $200)
2016
UF Office of Research Graduate Student Travel Grant (Award: $250)
UF Graduate Student Council Travel Grant (Award: $350)
2015
UF Graduate Student Council Travel Grant (Award: $350)
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2022
University of Florida Center for Teaching Excellence First-Year Teaching Academy.
Certification achieved. Summer 2022.
University of North Florida Teaching Online Foundation Course.
Month-long online course design training. Certification achieved. July 2022.
2021
”Research and Practice on HyFlex Learning in Higher Education”
Florida Distance Learning Research Repository & UF Institute of Online Learning. February 2021.
2017
UF Center for Latin American Studies: Brazilian Music Institute.
Guest percussion clinician Cesinha (aka Nilton César Lacerda dos Santos)
UF School of Music: African Drumming Workshop.
Guest clinician Bernard Woma.
2015
UF Center for Latin American Studies: Brazilian Music Institute.
Guest clinicians Antonio Adolfo and Hermógenes Araujo.
2013
UF Center for Latin American Studies: Brazilian Music Institute
Guest clinicians Adriano Santos, and Jorge Continentino.
2012
UF Center for Latin American Studies: Brazilian Music Institute
Guest clinicians Carlinhos Pandeiro de Ouro and Richard Miller.
PROFESSIONAL MUSICAL PERFORMANCE PROJECTS
Arismar dos Espirito Santo (Brazilian Jazz) - 2023
Gosia and Ali Music (Popular, Jazz, & Latin) - 2004-present
Susmita Datta (Folk & Semi-classical North Indian) - 2022
Longineu Parsons (Jazz and blues) - 2022
Gary Langford Jazz Project - 2007-2018
WORLD MUSIC ENSEMBLE EXPERIENCE
University of Florida African Popular Music Ensemble, Guest Performer (2021-2023)
University of Florida Jacaré Brazil Ensemble, Graduate Student Assistant (2013-2018)
University of North Texas Afro-Cuban Ensemble (1998-1999)
University of North Texas South Indian Ensemble (1997)
University of North Texas African Ensemble (1996)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM)
Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast and Caribbean Chapter (SEMSEC)
Society for American Music (SAM)
AREAS OF RESEARCH
Phenomenology
Semiotics
Arctic Ethnomusicology
Arctic Anthropology
Music and culture
Indigenous studies
Critical and social theory
Ethnographic research methods
Sound studies
World music
Jazz and popular music history
Sound studies
American folk musics
SERVICE TO PROFESSION
Paper Reviewer: SEM Frisbie Prize for Best Student Indigenous Topic Paper
Society for Ethnomusicology Indigenous Special Interest Group. January 2024
Conference Panel Chair
Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast/Caribbean Chapter (SEMSEC). March 17-18, 2023.
Journal Peer Reviewer
Arctic Anthropology. February 2023.
Conference Session Room Coordinator/Volunteer
Jazz Education Network (JEN) Annual Conference.
San Diego, California, January 7-10, 2015.
Conference Technical Coordinator
Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast and Caribbean Chapter (SEMSEC) Conference.
Gainesville, Florida, March 2014.
Conference Session Room Coordinator/Volunteer
Jazz Education Network (JEN) Annual Conference.
Dallas, Texas, January 8-11, 2014.
Event Programming Volunteer
Florida Department of State: Florida Folklife Program: Apprenticeship Program Performance Event Series. Florida Folk Festival, White Springs, Florida, 2013.