Education:
B.A. (Computer Science), B.A. (Music), Columbia Univ.
M.A., Ph.D. (Musicology), Univ. of California-Los Angeles

Charles Garrett came to the U-M faculty after completing his graduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. His dissertation, entitled Struggling to Define a Nation: American Music in the Twentieth Century, received the Wiley Housewright Award from the Society for American Music. His research and teaching interests focus primarily on American music, jazz, popular music, music and racial/ethnic representation, and cultural theory. He has presented papers at a wide variety of national and international conferences, and his articles and reviews have appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Echo, Notes, and American Music.

Professor Garrett serves as editor-in-chief for The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition, a key reference work that will appear on-line and as a multi-volume print publication. His current book project, which derives in part from his dissertation, focuses on the intersections of race, class, and nation in American music of the early twentieth century. He has received several national prizes, including the Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship and the Alvin H. Johnson AMS-50 Dissertation Fellowship from the American Musicological Society as well as the Mark Tucker Award from the Society of American Music. He currently serves as the undergraduate musicology advisor for the School of Music, Theatre & Dance.