Alessandra Ciucci received a PhD in music (ethnomusicology) from The City University of New York at The Graduate Center. Her research interests include: the music of Morocco, the Maghreb, the Mediterranean, gender and sexuality, sung poetry, popular music of the Arab world, and music and migration. Her articles appear in Ethnomusicology, The Yearbook for Traditional Music, The International Journal of Middle East Studies, Mondi Migranti, Cahiers de musiques traditionnelles, Ethnomusicology Forum, and The Journal of North African Studies. She is the author of multiple entries on Morocco in the Sage International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture, contributed chapters to a number of edited volumes, and has also translated and co-edited an article for Ethnomusicology Translations. She is the recipient of grants from the Fulbright Program, the Jewish Foundation for the Education of Women, the American Institute for Maghrib Studies, the Office of the Provost, the Global Humanities Project, and the Lenfest Program. Before beginning her tenure-track appointment at Columbia, she served in the music department as a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow. In 2018-2019 she won the Rome Prize in Modern Italian Studies.