About
Joe Maurer is a Humanities Teaching Fellow at the University of Chicago, where he recently completed a PhD in Ethnomusicology. His dissertation is an ethnographic study of nonprofit music education organizations in several Chicago immigrant communities. His second area of research examines the aesthetics of sea music revivalism. His public and nonprofit-sector work includes research, strategic planning, and program evaluation for Chicago arts education organizations and Chicago Public Schools. Prior to his doctoral studies, Joe worked with high school students as a college access counselor in high school and nonprofit contexts in Providence, RI and Boston, MA.
Workshops
Co-coordinator of EthNoise!, 2015-2016
Teaching Experience
Intro to World Music
Intro to Music Analysis and Criticism
Intro to the Social and Cultural Study of Music
Music, Immigration, and Ethnic Formation in the U.S. City
Reading Cultures I & II
Chicago (Im)migrant Literature
Pirate Chanteys; or, Maritime Music and Postmodern Nostalgia