ERIC BERNARD EDERER
e-mail: ederer@umail.ucsb.edu

Education
Doctoral Candidate, Ethnomusicology, University of California, Santa Barbara (Ph.D. expected Spring 2010)
M.A. Ethnomusicology, University of California, Santa Barbara 2007
B.A. Music Composition, College of Creative Studies, UC Santa Barbara 1996
A.A. Spanish Language, Santa Barbara City College 1994
Apprenticeship in Luthiery (classical guitar) with A. Markasky Jr., Santa Cruz, CA 1989-1991

Master's Thesis
"The Cümbüs as Instrument of the Other in Modern Turkey" Jan. 2007

Fieldwork
Istanbul, Turkey (taksim and makam in the Republican Period) Presently until Aug. 2009
Western Turkey (history of the cümbüs as a marker of ethnic identity) June-Dec. 2005
Istanbul, Turkey (classical makam and contemporary ud practice) June-Aug. 2003

Teaching Experience
Associate Teacher, Music Dept. UCSB:
"Introduction to Musics of the World" - Summer 2007
Oud instructor for UCSB Middle East Ensemble - Oct. 2003 - March 2008

Teaching Assistant, Music Dept., UCSB:
"Music and Popular Culture in America" - Spring 2007 through Spring 2008
"Introduction to Musics of the World" - Spring 2006, Winter 2006, Spring 2005, Winter 2005, Fall 2004, Spring 2004, Winter 2004, Fall 2003

Presentations and Guest Lectures
"Music and Advertising" for class Music and Pop Culture Fall 2006, Winter 2007, UCSB
"Lutes of the Silk Road" (contributor) as part of visiting Silk Road Project exhibition, UCSB, March 2007
"Music of the Sephardic Jews" for class Jews Among the Nations Spring 2007, for class Introduction to Musics of the World Spring 2005 and for class Religion and Western Civilization II: Medieval Winter 2004, Winter 2005, UCSB
"Hollywood as Music Culture" for class Introduction to Musics of the World Spring 2004, Fall 2004, Winter 2005, Spring 2005, UCSB
"Greek Music: Smyrneika and Rebetika" for class Music of the Balkans Fall 2005, UCSB

Conference Presentations
"Imaginings of Ancient Greece in Twentieth Century Music," Society for Ethnomusicology Southern California Chapter, UC Santa Barbara February 2008
"Dueling Multiculturalisms and Musical 'Con-Fusion' in Modern Turkey: the Recontextualization of an Instrument of Otherness," Society for Ethnomusicology Conference, Honolulu, HI, October 2006
"Dueling Multiculturalisms and Musical 'Con-Fusion' in Modern Turkey: the Recontextualization of an Instrument of Otherness," Society for Ethnomusicology Southern California Chapter Conference, San Diego, CA, March 2006
"Cümbüs as Instrument of the Other in Modern Turkey," International Conference on Musical Representation/Representation in Music, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, October 2005

Music Ensembles
UCSB Middle East Ensemble Oct. 2001-Present
Mesógeios (Greek Smyrneika and Rebetika) Jan. 2001-Present
Flor de Kanela (traditional Sephardic music) Oct. 2004-Present

Academic Translations and Transcriptions
Wilde, Guillermo. 2007. "Toward A Political Anthropology Of Mission Sound: Paraguay In The 17th And 18th Centuries" in Music and Politics, vol. II, 2007
Music transcriber for UCSB Middle East Ensemble Fall 2002-Present

Languages
Spanish (fluent)
French (read, intermediate speaking)
Portuguese (read, intermediate speaking)
Italian (read, intermediate speaking)
Turkish (intermediate fluency)

Awards, Scholarships, etc.
Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Fellowship Fall 2008
American Research Institute in Turkey Dissertation Fellowship (declined) Winter 2008
Excellence in Performance: Ethnomusicology, UCSB Music Dept., 2007
Sarkis Tchejeyan Memorial Fellowship June 2007
Excellence in Performance: Ethnomusicology, UCSB Music Dept.,2003
Sarkis Tchejeyan Memorial Fellowship June 2002