Executive Director Hannah Rogers is an ethnomusicologist whose research uses the global(izing) phenomenon of tourism to theorize contemporary musical identities and relationships between sound, people, ideas, and places. With a longstanding focus on the public relevance of ethnomusicology, she has interned at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and worked in various capacities – mainly archival – at Maryland Traditions, Maryland’s state folklife program. While earning her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, she taught courses on world music and coordinated EthNoise!, the ethnomusicology workshop. Pursuing her passion for interdisciplinarity, she has taught a Heritage Tourism course for the Cultural Heritage Management Program at the Johns Hopkins University Krieger School for Advanced Studies since 2019.

Hannah holds a B.A. from Eugene Lang College and an M.A. in the Humanities and Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Chicago. Her dissertation is titled “Resounding Archipelagoes: Music and Tourism in New Orleans and Havana.” She lives in New Orleans and recently co-authored the Oxford Bibliography of Music and Tourism (forthcoming).