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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Asian Studies,Musicology |
| Keywords | Iranian languages, Pamir mountain societies, Greek-Arabic-Persian connections, Post-Soviet societies, Moral philosophy |
| Honours and awards | 2018: Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Fellow, National Humanities Center 2017: John F. Richards Research Fellowship, American Institute of Afghanistan Studies 2015: John F. Richards Travel Grant, American Institute of Afghanistan Studies 2012: American Institute of Indian Studies Research Grant 2012: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2012: Fulbright South and Central Asia Regional Research Grant 2005: The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Humanities (book prize) 2002: American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship 2002: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship |
Current contact address
| Country | United States of America |
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| City | Cambridge |
| Institution | Harvard University |
| Institute | Department of Music |
| Homepage | richardkwolf.com |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Frank Heidemann | Institut für Ethnologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/05/2014 |
Programme(s)
| 2012 | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Wolf is an internationally leading ethnomusicologist. He has written extensively on folk and classical music in India and Pakistan. His books and articles examine socio-musical aspects of style in Karnatak music, problems of rhythm in a variety of south Asian genres, musical and social dimensions of indigeneity in India, and the roles of music in religious and life-cycle ceremonies. Professor Wolf is also an internationally recognized performer of the south Indian vina (a long necked lute). In Germany he will work together with Frank Heidemann on an edited volume entitled The Bison and the Horn: Indigeneity, Performance, and the State of India. |