Richard Jankowsky

Richard C. Jankowsky (Ph.D. University of Chicago) is Professor of Music at Tufts University. An anthropologist of music specializing in trance, ritual healing, and minoritized groups in North Africa, he received the Alan Merriam Book Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology for most recent monograph, Ambient Sufism: Ritual Niches and the Social Work of Musical Form (2021), which also received honorable mention for book prizes in North African Studies and Religious Studies. His previous monograph, Stambeli: Music, Trance, and Alterity in Tunisia (2010), received honorable mention for book prizes in African Music, Anthropology, and North African Studies. He has also published on topics including music and ritual, methodologies for researching music and trance, microrhythmic analysis in trance musics, the concert staging of Sufi music, and jazz diplomacy and the democratic imagination.