Michael A. Figueroa is Associate Professor of Music. A researcher of music in the SWANA region and diasporas, he is the author of City of Song: Music and the Making of Modern Jerusalem (Oxford University Press, 2022) and is currently writing a second book, Racial Awakening in Arab America: Performance, Intimacy, and Critique. His articles have appeared in Ethnomusicology, Ethnomusicology Forum, Journal of Music History Pedagogy, Journal of Musicology, and multiple edited volumes. Figueroa has been Associate Director of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies, Coordinator of the Faculty of Color/Indigenous Faculty Group, and Director of the New Faculty Program.