Amy Horowitz was born in Washington, D.C. in 1952. She is scholar-in-residence at The Ohio State University Mershon Center for International Security Studies where she teaches in the International Studies Program. Currently she is visiting scholar at Indiana University’s Center for the Study of Global Change and the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and will offer course within the Themester program in fall, 2011. Dr. Horowitz’s main research interests are Mediterranean Israeli music, cultures in disputed territories, ethnographies of contemporary Jerusalem, and protest music as responsible citizenship. Her recent book, Mediterranean Israeli Music and the Politics of the Aesthetic won honorable mention in the Association of Jewish Studies Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in 2010. Dr. Horowitz served as assistant and acting director of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, where she won a Grammy as co-producer of The Anthology of American Folk Music.