Eric Charry

• Associate Professor of Music, Wesleyan University
• Attended Central High School , Philadelphia
• B.Mus. and M.Mus. -- New England Conservatory of Music
• Ph.D. in Music -- Princeton University
• American Institute of Indian Studies Fellowship to study the sitar in India -- 1984-1985
• Social Science Research Council Dissertation Research Fellowship to study Mande music in Senegal, Mali, The Gambia, and Guinea -- 1988-1990
• American Philosophical Society Research Grant for book on Mande music (travel to Europe and Guinea) -- summer 1994
• Plays: guitar, kora, jembe, balafon

· Publications

• Courses taught this semester at Wesleyan University