Sonia Tamar Seeman is an Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology in the Butler School of Music's musicology and ethnomusicology division and holds active affiliations with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Center for Women and Gender Studies, and the Center for Russian, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies. She serves as the UT-Butler School of Music's Bachelor of Arts Program Coordinator and UT's Fulbright Program Advisor and Chair. Seeman's research focuses on the music of the Middle East and Southeastern Europe and has been working with Romani professional musicians since the mid-1980s. Her ongoing field research in Macedonia and Turkey focuses on the crucial role of Romani musicians and other minorities. She has published several articles, liner notes, and co-produced Turkish Romani music cd with Selim Sesler, "Roads to Kesan." Seeman's monograph, "Sounding Roman: Representation and Performing Identity in Western Turkey" was published by Oxford University Press, 2019. Her work has been featured in Turkish news articles and has been interviewed twice on NPR's The World. She teaches courses on music and social identity (Music and Gender; Music, Identity and Difference; Music and Culture; Romani music and representation; Music of the Middle East). She is also the founder and director of UT's Middle Eastern Ensemble, "Bereket" which brings together students, faculty, staff, and community members in studying and performing regional, court, religious, and popular music from these regions and their diasporic communities. She is active in her local neighborhood association, Pecan Springs-Springdale Neighborhood Association, and serves on the advising body for Texas Folklife. She has been facilitating and organizing workshops with Pakistan's first music conservatory, the National Academy for Performing Arts (NAPA) through US Department of State Education programs in Pakistan since 2014, and is founder and director of the raga-fusion ensemble, Sangat!, which performed at SXSW in Spring 2018.