Gregory Barz, assistant professor of ethnomusicology at the Blair School of Music, received his PhD in ethnomusicology from Brown University and M.A. in musicology from the University of Chicago. Currently Dr. Barz is engaged in an ethnographic study of HIV/AIDS and women's music and dance in Eastern Uganda. He is author of Music in East Africa: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture and Performing Religion: Negotiating Past and Present in Kwaya Music of Tanzania. He is also co-editor of Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology and Mashindano: Music and Competition in Tanzania and East Africa.

Universal Language of Music: Two researchers create digital archive of rare African music (7/19/04)

Jim Bradford, acting dean at the Owen School of Business, joined Vanderbilt after serving as president and CEO for AFG Industries, Inc., North America's largest vertically integrated glass manufacturing and fabrication company. He was responsible for the Americas operations of the multi-divisional organization, which in 1992 became part of Asahi Glass Co., the world’s largest glass manufacturer and fabricator. Most recently he served as president and CEO of United Glass Corporation, a consolidation of domestic glass fabricators in the United States and Canada. In addition to these endeavors, his employment history includes eleven years of private legal practice serving as General Counsel for AFG Industries, Inc. during its years as a publicly traded company.

Curb Center advisory board member to serve as acting dean of Owen School (5/21/04)

Dale Cockrell is a professor of musicology and American and Southern studies and director of the program in American and Southern studies. He has published widely in 19th-century American popular music, including books, articles, papers, and reviews. A former president of the Society for American Music, he is currently a delegate to the American Council of Learned Studies.

Constance Gee is an associate professor of public policy and education at Peabody College. Dr. Gee has written extensively on the impact and consequences of public policy and programming on K-12 arts education and on the effects of arts advocacy on public perceptions about the nature and merits of arts education. Prior to joining the Vanderbilt faculty, she taught at Brown University and directed the Arts Policy and Administration Program at The Ohio State University. Since 1997 she has served as executive editor for the scholarly journal Arts Education Policy Review. She serves on the board of directors for the Frist Center for Visual Arts and the Nashville Institute for Visual Arts Education.

Steven A. Hetcher, professor of law, received a B.A. from Wisconsin, an M.A. from the University of Chicago, a PhD from Illinois, and a J.D. from Yale University. He joined the Law School faculty in 1998 after practicing at Arnold & Porter. He joined the Law School faculty in 1998 after practicing at Arnold & Porter. He teaches Torts, the Law of Cyberspace, Regulation of the Internet, Copyright, and a seminar on social norms. His research interests focus upon the role of social norms and the law, and challenges the economic account of custom and tort law and the norms-based theories of first-generation law and economics. His scholarship also includes the Internet, Intellectual Property and Privacy.

Robert Mode, chair of the department of art and art history, specializes in Italian Renaissance and British Art. He is now working on Hogarth's Enraged Musician, and the Raphaelite paradigm in early modern art theory and practice. His publications appear in Art Bulletin and Burlington Magazine. At the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies and the Curb Center he pursues how artists approach public art in a rapidly changing cultural environment.

Beverly Moran, professor of law and sociology, is a leading tax scholar who joined Vanderbilt in 2001 having previously taught at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she directed the Center for Law and Africa. Her recent scholarship includes a path-breaking analysis of the disparate impact of the federal tax code on different racial groups. She has won a number of teaching awards and has been a visiting professor at the University of Colorado, the University of Asmara in Eritrea, and the University of Giessen in Germany. Professor Moran’s interests also include economic development in Africa.

Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr. is a professor of philosophy, director of the African American studies program and associate provost for undergraduate education. He focuses on racial matters in socio-political life in the United States and in Legacies of European and Euro-American philosophy, social and political philosophy, Africana philosophy, and American Philosophy.

Cecelia Tichi is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English at Vanderbilt University and has more than 30 years of experience as an educator and researcher. Her books include High Lonesome: The American Culture of Country Music, Electronic Hearth: Creating an American Television Culture, Shifting Gears: Technology, Literature, Culture in Modernist America, and most recently Exposes and Excess: Muckraking in America 1900/2000.