Specialists on the UCSC faculty include:
Amy C. Beal
20th-century American music; experimental music, post-1945, biography
Benjamin Carson
Cognitive musicology; music and identity
Nicol Hammond
Queer theory, gender and sexuality, popular music, race, nationalism, postcolonial studies, South Africa, vocal music, listening
Karlton Hester
Spontaneous and premeditated composition of the African diaspora
Anatole Leikin
19th- and early 20th-century European music
Tanya Merchant
Musics of Central Asia and the former Soviet Union, music and gender, Baroque music; nationalism, globalization, and institutionalization of music
Leta Miller
20th-century American experimental music, 16th-century chanson, madrigal, and C.P.E. Bach
Dard Neuman
20th-century Hindustani music: musicians, colonialism, nationalism, technology and pedagogy
Nina Treadwell
Italian Renaissance and early Baroque music, gender and music