Anne K. Rasmussen is professor of ethnomusicology and Bickers Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the College of William and Mary where she also directs the William and Mary Middle Eastern Music Ensemble. Her publications encompass music of the Middle East and Islamicate worlds, with a focus on Indonesia and the Arabian Peninsula, and music and community in a multicultural United States. Recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships for research in Indonesia, and a Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center Fellowship for research in Oman, her award-winning publications include numerous articles and chapters, and three books: Women’s Voices, the Recited Qur’an, and Islamic Music in Indonesia, (California 2010); Divine Inspirations: Music and Islam in Indonesia, co-edited with David Harnish (Oxford 2011); The Music of Multicultural America: Performance, Community, and Identity in the USA, co-edited with Kip Lornell. (Schirmer 1997, 2nd, revised, expanded edition, 2016, U. P. Mississippi). She has been elected to the board of the Society for Ethnomusicology three times, including as president (2015-2017). At William & Mary, she currently serves as Program Director for Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and has just completed a 3-year term as Vice President of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Chapter of Virginia. Anne Rasmussen blends teaching, research, and performance as a musician in a variety of musical styles. Currently, she sings, and plays the piano, ‘ud, qanun, and riqq, and normally maintains a busy schedule of rehearsal and performance with the Middle Eastern music ensemble that she directs and as a soloist and collaborator in the context of her ethnographic fieldwork.

Anthropology

Diaspora/Refugee Studies

Ethnic American Studies

Ethnomusicology

Folklore/Folklife

Gulf Studies

Islamic Studies

Music

Mysticism/Sufi Studies

Southeast Asian Studies

Transnationalism

Arab States

Indonesia

Mediterranean Countries

Islam & SE Asia

ME Ethnic Groups In US

Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Yemen, Oman

Arabic (intermediate)

French (fluent)

German (intermediate)

Indonesian (fluent)