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Hiromi Lorraine Sakata Appointed Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in UCLA's School of the Arts and Architecture

Carolyn Campbell (ccampbel@arts.ucla.edu) (310) 825-6540
For Immediate Use Friday, June 26, 1998.

Hiromi Lorraine Sakata has been named Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. The appointment was announced by Dean Daniel Neuman. Sakata replaces William Hutchinson, who has retired.

"Lorraine Sakata has demonstrated significant leadership both as an academician and as an administrator and is very highly regarded among her peers and colleagues," said Neuman. "I am delighted that she is joining the School and I look forward to the valuable contribution she will make towards our commitment to arts education at UCLA."

As Associate Dean, Sakata will be involved with the students, faculty, and curriculum of the six academic departments of the School: Architecture and Urban Design, Art, Design, Ethnomusicology, Music, and World Arts and Cultures.

Sakata comes to UCLA from the University of Washington, where she was professor of music and adjunct professor of anthropology. During her tenure at the University of Washington, she served as Chair of the Ethnomusicology program, Associate Director of the School of Music, and Acting Director of the Middle East Studies Program and Middle East Center.

She has a long history at the University of Washington, having earned her M.A. there in 1968 and her Ph.D. in 1976. She received her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Sakata's scholarly area of interest has been primarily the music of Central and South Asia. Her book, "Music in the Mind: The Concepts of Music and Musician in Afghanistan," was published in 1983. Her current research interest is in the music of Pakistan. Her article, "Devotional Music of Pakistan," will appear in the forthcoming South Asia volume of the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music.

She has been the recipient of numerous grants, fellowships, and awards, including those from the Smithsonian Institution, Fulbright Scholar Program, Indo-U.S. Subcommission on Education and Culture, and the American-Pakistan Research Organization.

She serves on the advisory board of the World Music Institute, New York, and on the editorial board of the Chicago Series in Ethnomusicology, University of Chicago Press. She is active in the Society for Ethnomusicology, where she is a member of the Council and was a member of the Board from 1985-87 and again from 1990-92. She has been a reviewer for the presses of Oxford University, the University of Illinois, the University of Chicago, and the University of Washington, for both the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as for the professional journal, Ethnomusicology.

She has been a consultant for the Asia Society and the Ford Foundation and a panelist for various programs of the National Endowment for the Arts, serving as panel chair for the NEA Folk Arts Program in 1988-89.


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