Juan David Rubio Restrepo
[email protected] (+1) 619-802-3823 ACADEMIC POSITIONS The University of Texas at El Paso, Assistant Professor, Department of Music/Chicano Studies Program, 2020—present University of California San Diego, Associate-In, Music Department, 2016—2020 Teaching Assistant, Linguistics Department (Spanish), 2015—2020 Teaching Assistant, Music Department, 2014—2018 University of California Irvine, Teaching Assistant, Music Department, 2012—2014 Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Lecturer, Music Department (undergraduate program and Programa Infantil y Juvenil), 2009—2012 EDUCATION University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA Doctor of Philosophy, Music (focus on Integrative Studies), June 2020 Dissertation: “Genealogies of the popular: Alterity, nation, and industry in the voice of Julio Jaramillo.” Committee: Profs. Amy Cimini (chair), Nancy Guy, Anthony Davis, Roshanak Kheshti, and Kirstie Dorr University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA Master of Fine Arts in Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology, June 2014 Thesis project: “Spatia: A telematic interactive concert/installation” Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia Bachelor of Music with Highest Honors, Drum performance and Jazz Studies, June 2008 RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Latin American musics and musics from the African diaspora (cumbia, global jazz, Afro-Cuban music). Latin American studies (decolonial thought, mestizaje, gender and masculinity, nation and nationalisms). Critical race studies and cultural studies (African-American, Caribbean, Chicano/a and Latin American studies of race, post-Marxist thought). Music industry and circulation (piracy, sound-system cultures, Pan-American media industry). Ethnography of popular music (private archives, oral histories, record collectors). Performance and composition 1 (percussive languages of Latin American musics and musics of the African diaspora, conduction, improvisation, non-traditional notation).