Deborah Anne Wong

Deborah Wong is an ethnomusicologist and Professor of Music at the University of California, Riverside. She specializes in the musics of Asian America and Thailand and has written three books. She is a past President of the Society for Ethnomusicology, a series editor for Wesleyan University Press’s Music/Culture series, and has served on the editorial boards for the various journals and book series. She is a curator for the new Asian Pacific America Series for Smithsonian Folkways. Very active in public sector work at the national, state, and local levels, she has served as the Chair of the Advisory Council for the Smithsonian Institution’s Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and as the President of the Board for the Alliance for California Traditional Arts.