Jeffers Engelhardt

Jeffers Engelhardt is the Karen and Brian Conway ’80, P’18 Presidential Teaching Professor of Music at Amherst College, where he is affiliated with Film and Media Studies, European Studies, and the Five College Certificate in Ethnomusicology. He researches the relationship of music, religion, and secularity; the sonic world of Orthodox Christianity; contemporary Estonian culture and society; and decolonizing movements in the Baltics. He teaches courses in ethnomusicology focusing on community-based ethnography, music and religion, voice and listening, and analytical approaches to music and sound. Since 2016, he has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Journal of Music & Religion.