Sarah Ross takes up professorship in Hanover
The musicologist Sarah Ross, who previously worked at the University of Bern as a research assistant in the field of cultural anthropology of music, has taken up a professorship for Jewish music studies with a special focus on synagogue music at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media.
Sarah Ross is the director of the European Center for Jewish Music (ECJM) in Hanover, which was established by Andor Izsák in 1992 and has been housed in the Villa Seligmann since its opening at the beginning of 2012. Its aim is to collect, research and communicate Jewish music, with a particular focus on synagogue liturgy.
Sarah Ross's responsibilities include the continuation and cataloging of the EZJM collection, regional and international networking with other disciplines of Jewish Studies as well as research and teaching with the aim of re-establishing, securing and further developing "Jewish Music" as an independent field of academic research with specific courses in the German university system.
Sarah Maria Ross studied ethnomusicology, Jewish studies and classical archaeology in Cologne as well as historical musicology, European ethnology and classical archaeology in Kiel, completed her doctorate as a DFG scholarship holder at the Rostock University of Music and Drama and most recently worked as an assistant for cultural anthropology of music at the Institute of Musicology and as head of studies for World Arts at the Centre for Cultural Studies at the University of Bern. There she worked on her habilitation thesis "Musical Timescapes: Reflections on a Musical Anthropology of Sustainability".
