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philip bohlman

philip vilas bohlman is an american ethnomusicologist .
he is the mary werkman distinguished service professor of music and the humanities at the university of chicago and a visiting professor at the hochschule für musik und theater -lrb- hannover -rrb- .
at chicago , bohlman is on the resource faculty of the germanic studies department , the mary marty center for the advanced study of religion , the center for jewish studies , the center for european and russian/eurasian studies , the divinity school , and the scherer center for the study of american culture .
bohlman has held guest professorships at numerous universities , including the university of california , berkeley , the university of freiburg , the university of vienna , and yale university , among others .
bohlman received his doctorate from the university of illinois in 1984 and has been teaching at chicago since 1987 .
bohlman 's research has been funded by the alexander von humboldt foundation and often includes fieldwork in kolkata and varanasi , india , and throughout germany , with current fieldwork in india and the muslim communities of europe .
bohlman 's research focuses on jewish music and modernity .
bohlman also frequently engages in intensive studies of the eurovision song contest .
bohlman is also the artistic director of `` the new budapest orpheum society '' at the university of chicago .
in conjunction with his work with that group , oxford university bestowed the 2009 donald tovey prize on bohlman and christine wilkie bohlman .
bohlman was inducted into the american academy of arts and sciences as a fellow in 2011 , and into the british academy as a corresponding fellow in 2007 .
in 1997 , he was the first ethnomusicologist to receive the edward j. dent medal from the royal musical association , and also received the berlin prize from the american academy in berlin in 2003 , the derek allen prize from the british academy in 2007 , and a faculty award for excellence in graduate teaching from the university of chicago in 1999 .
bohlman served as the president of the society for ethnomusicology from 2005-2007 .
in 2014 the university of kassel awarded him the rosenzweig professorship .
