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Timothy Rice Appointed Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in UCLA’s School of the Arts and Architecture

Professor Timothy Rice has been named associate dean for academic affairs in the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture (UCLArts) effective July 1. The appointment was announced by Dean Christopher Waterman. Rice succeeds professor Hiromi Lorraine Sakata, who has retired.

As associate dean, Rice will be involved with the students, faculty and curriculum of the six academic departments of the school: architecture and urban design, art, design | media arts, ethnomusicology, music, and world arts and cultures.

“Tim Rice has demonstrated significant leadership both as an academician and as an administrator and is very highly regarded among his peers and colleagues,” Waterman said. “I am delighted that he is taking on this new assignment and I look forward to the valuable contribution he will continue to make towards our commitment to arts education at UCLA.”

Rice joined the faculty of UCLArts’ department of ethnomusicology in 1987 as an associate professor. He was promoted to full professor in 1993 and has served as chair of the department since 1996.

Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje, a professor in the department and the director of the Ethnomusicology Archive, succeeds him as chair.

Rice is founding co-editor of the 10-volume “Garland Encyclopedia of World Music” and the author of “May It Fill Your Soul: Experiencing Bulgarian Music” (University of Chicago Press, 1994). His research, based on numerous field trips to the Balkans since 1969, has been published in major journals, including Ethnomusicology, Yearbook for Traditional Music and Journal of American Folklore. He also has published articles on ethnomusicological methods, cross-cultural music theory and music education.

He has served his academic field in a variety of ways, including editing a collection of scholarly essays, “Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Music”; serving as editor of Ethnomusicology; and acting as treasurer and member of the board of directors of the Society for Ethnomusicology. He currently is president of the Society for Ethnomusicology.
He holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in music from the University of Washington and a B.A. in history from Yale.

UCLArts
Artists, architects, dancers, designers, musicians and scholars come to the School of the Arts and Architecture at UCLA to draw on its unique curriculum, which interweaves work in performance, studio and research studies, providing them with a solid creative, artistic and intellectual foundation, as well as a liberal arts education from one of the country’s finest research universities. Our students gain a global view of the arts while integrating contemporary practice and theory in their chosen discipline.

Providing a full range of course offerings and degree programs, the school comprises six degree-granting units — architecture and urban design, art, design | media arts, ethnomusicology, music, and world arts and cultures; three centers — the Center for Intercultural Performance, the Experiential Technologies Center and the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts; two museums — the Fowler and the Hammer; and a major performing arts program, UCLA Live.

UCLA
As a major research university, UCLA explores a broad range of subjects essential to creating real-world advances in health care, education, science, commerce, the arts and culture, scholarship, and community service. The wealth of cultural treasures and programs — museums and concert halls, theaters and dance studios, galleries and sculpture gardens, libraries and archives — makes UCLA a leading arts and cultural center of the West and the flagship arts campus of the UC system.

For Immediate Use
Sept. 12, 2005

Carolyn Campbell, ccampbel@arts.ucla.edu
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