TIMOTHY MURRAY
CURRICULUM VITAE (CV PDF)
Education
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”
Advisor: Larry Crook; Committee members: Peter Collings, Silvio dos Santos, Welson Tremura
M.A., University of Florida, Ethnomusicology
Secondary 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”
Advisor: Larry Crook; committee member: Welson Tremura
B.A., University of North Texas, English Literature
Professional Appointments/Employment
2021— Present University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Adjunct Lecturer, Ethnomusicology, School of Music
Adjunct Lecturer, Center for Undergraduate Research
Director, World Beat Ensemble
Affiliated Faculty, Center for Arts Migration and Entrepreneurship
Adjunct Lecturer, University Writing Program
University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida
Adjunct Assistant Faculty, Ethnomusicology/Musicology.
2023—2025 University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Director, African Popular Music Ensemble.
Santa Fe College, Gainesville, Florida
Adjunct Instructor
Publications
2025 Book Review of Called Upstairs: Moravian Inuit Music in Labrador for Notes: The Quarterly Journal of
the Music Library Association. Brien Weiner, Ed.
2023 Monograph: Murray, Timothy E., The Effects of Inuit Drum Dancing on Psychosocial Well-Being and
Resilience: Productivity and Cultural Competence in an Inuit Settlement. Lexington Books/Rowman &
Littlefield.
2021 Book Chapter: Murray, Timothy E., “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.
Awards & Honors
2020 The Society for Ethnomusicology Charlotte Frisbie Student Paper Prize for Indigenous Music
Research (Award: $150).
2013-20 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University of Florida.
Grants & Fellowships
2019 Firebird Foundation Fellowship for Anthropological Research Dissertation (Award: $10,000)
2018 UF Graduate School Doctoral Research Travel Grant (Award: $6,000)
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)
2016 UF Graduate Student Council Travel Grant (Award: $350)
2015 UF Graduate Student Council Travel Grant (Award: $350)
Conference Presentations
2025 “Inuit Drum Dancing and the Unfolding Taskscape.” (paper accepted). Society for Ethnomusicology
(SEM) Annual Meeting. Atlanta. October 2025.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2018 “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 Annual Meeting, University of Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago.
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.
2015 “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.
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.
Campus Talks
2025 “Folk Art and Music: Cultural Sustainability.” Invited panelist: University of Florida
Sustainability Summit, sponsored by the UF Center for Humanities & the Public Sphere.
2022 “Faculty Life at an R1 Institution.” Invited panelist: University of Florida, Center for
Teaching Excellence.
Teaching Experience: Adjunct/Lecturer
University of Florida
2025 Introduction to Ethnomusicology graduate seminar [F2F], Fall.
Music and Spirituality [F2F], Fall.
Research and Creativity at UF (Undergraduate Honors Research) [F2F],
Fall: 249 undergraduate students, 46 undergraduate TAs, 1 GTA.
Summer: 47 undergraduate students, 20 undergraduate TAs, 1 GTA.
Rhetorical Writing (2 sections) [F2F], Spring 2025.
2024 Research and Creativity at UF (Undergraduate Honors Research) [F2F],
Fall: 275 undergraduates, 40 undergraduate TAs, 1 GTA.
Summer: 65 undergraduates, 9 undergraduate TAs, 1 GTA
African Popular Music and Globalization graduate seminar [F2F], Fall.
2023 Introduction to Ethnomusicology graduate seminar [F2F], Fall.
Music, Identity, and a Sense of Place graduate seminar [F2F], Fall.
Introduction to World Musics [F2F], Spring.
2022 Theoretical Perspectives in Ethnomusicology, graduate seminar [F2F], Fall.
Introduction to World Musics [F2F], Fall.
2021 Experiencing Music [F2F], Fall.
University of North Florida
2025 African American Musical Heritage [Online], Fall and Spring
Introduction to Music Literature (2 sections) [Online], Fall.
Introduction to Music Literature [Online], Summer B and Spring.
2024 Introduction to Music Literature (2 sections) [Online], Fall.
African American Musical Heritage [Online], Spring.
Introduction to World Musics, [Online], Spring.
2023 African American Musical Heritage [Online], Fall.
Introduction to World Musics [Online], Spring.
2022 African American Musical Heritage [Online], Fall and Spring.
Introduction to World Musics [Online], Spring.
Santa Fe College
2025 Introduction to World Music (2 sections) [Online], Spring.
2024 Introduction to World Music (2 sections per term) [F2F], Fall and Spring
2023 Introduction to World Music (2 sections) [F2F], Fall.
Teaching Experience: UF Instructor of Record/Graduate Assistantship
2021 Instructor, Experiencing Music [Online], Spring
Instructor, Introduction to World Musics [Online], Spring.
2020 Instructor, Introduction to World Musics [Online], Fall and Summer A.
Graduate Assistant, Experiencing Music [Online], Fall and Spring
Graduate Assistant, Introduction to World Musics [Online], Spring.
2019 Instructor, Introduction to World Musics [Online], Fall.
Graduate Assistant, Experiencing Music [Online], Summer B, Summer A, & Spring.
2018 Graduate Assistant, Experiencing Music [Online], Fall.
Graduate Assistant, Popular Music in the USA [Online], Summer B and Summer A.
Instructor, Introduction to World Musics [Online], Spring.
2017 Instructor, Introduction to World Musics [Online], Fall and Summer B.
Graduate Assistant, Introduction to World Musics [Online], Summer A.
Graduate Assistant, Experiencing Music [Online], Spring.
2016 Instructor, Introduction to World Musics [Online], Fall.
Graduate Assistant, Experiencing Music [Online], Fall.
Graduate Assistant, Introduction to World Musics [Online], Summer B.
Graduate Assistant, Popular Music in the USA [Online], Summer A.
Graduate Assistant, Jacaré Brazil Ensemble [Online], Spring.
2015 Graduate Assistant, Popular Music in America [Online], Fall.
Graduate Assistant, Introduction to World Musics [Online], Summer B and Summer A.
Instructor, Jazz History [Online], Spring.
2014 Graduate Assistant, History of Jazz, [Approx. 600 students online], Fall and Spring
Graduate Assistant, History of Jazz, [Approx. 300 students online], Summer B and Summer A.
2013 Graduate Assistant, History of Jazz, [Approx. 600 students online], Fall.
Ensemble Leadership
2025—Present Director, University of Florida World Beat Ensemble.
2023—2025 Director, University of Florida African Popular Music Ensemble.
Research Experience
Field Research for Ph.D. (June 2018–February 2020)
Conducted extensive ethnographic field research in Ulukhaktok, N.T., Canada. Studied the impacts of Inuit Drum Dancing on the psychosocial well-being of drum dance participants.
Research Assistantship (July–August 2018)
Served as a field research assistant for Dr. Peter Collings (Chair, UF Anthropology) in Ulukhaktok, N.T., Canada. Assisted with ethnographic interviews for a study on local meanings of stress and wellness
in the Arctic.
Field Research for MA Thesis (July 2014; October 2015)
Conducted extensive ethnographic field research on the “Ancient” fife and drum community of the Connecticut River Valley. Moodus, Connecticut.
Service to the Profession
Journal Peer Reviewer
Arctic Anthropology. October 2025.
Paper reviewer for the 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.
Courses Prepared to Teach
Undergraduate Survey Courses
Introduction to World Music
Music Appreciation/Music in Culture
African American Music
Popular Musics of the World
Jazz History
Music and Spirituality
Rhetorical Writing
Graduate Seminars
Introduction to Ethnomusicology
Theoretical Perspectives in Ethnomusicology
Music, Identity, and a Sense of Place
African Popular Music and Globalization
Music and Diaspora
The Study of Popular Music in Ethnomusicology
Research and Bibliography
Professional Development
2022 University of Florida Center for Teaching Excellence: First Year Teaching Academy
Certification.
2022 University of North Florida Teaching Online: Foundation Course.
Month-long training and certification in online course design.
2021 Research and Practice on HyFlex Learning in Higher Education.
Florida Distance Learning Research Repository & UF Institute of Online Learning.
2017 UF Center for Latin American Studies: Brazilian Music Institute.
Guest percussion clinician: Cesinha (aka Nilton César Lacerda dos Santos).
2017 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
2025 Alex Pershounin (Jazz and World Music).
2004-2024 Gosia and Ali Music (Popular, Jazz, and Latin).
2023 Arismar dos Espirito Santo (Brazilian Jazz).
2022 Susmita Datta (Folk and Semi-classical North Indian).
2022 Longineu Parsons (Jazz and blues).
2007-2017 Gary Langford Jazz Project (Combo and big band jazz).
2004 Denise Thimes (Jazz and Blues).
World Music Ensemble Experience
University of Florida African Popular Music Ensemble, guest performer.
University of Florida Jacaré Brazil Ensemble, graduate student assistant.
University of North Texas Afro-Cuban Ensemble.
University of North Texas South Indian Ensemble.
University of North Texas African Ensemble.
Professional Affiliations
Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM)
Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast and Caribbean Chapter (SEMSEC)
Society for American Music (SAM)
Research Interests
Arctic Ethnomusicology
Ethnographic research methods
Indigenous studies
Jazz and popular music history
Music and culture
Semiotic Phenomenology
Sound studies
World music