Carlos Peña   Tags: anthropology, latin american studies, music  

MA, Ethnomusicology

MLIS, Library and Information Science

BA, Anthropology

Member of Music Library Association, 2005 - present

-current member of Subject Access Subcommittee of the Bibliographic Control Committee

Member of Atlantic Chapter of the Music Library Association, 2004 - present

I provide primary support to the Department of Anthropology, and secondary support to the Department of Music and the Center for Latin American Studes.

Associate editor, Current Research in Jazz (An Open Access Journal, ISSN 1944-4877)

(Book review) Alexs Pate. In the Heart of the Beat: The Poetry of Rap (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2010) in Music Reference Services Quarterly, 14 nos. 1-2 (January-June 2011): p. 80-84.

(Book review) Chris Sheridan. Bags' Grooves: A Discography of Milt Jackson (Almere, The Netherlands: Names & Numbers, 2006) in ARSC Journal, 38 no. 2 (Fall 2007): p. 233-235.

"Photoplay Music from the Mirskey Collection at the University of Pittsburgh." To be presented at the Fall meeting of the Atlantic Chapter of the Music Library Association, Princeton University, October 2012.

"Digital Audio at the University Library System." Public Services Training Group session, Hillman Library, University of Pittsburgh, December 2009.

"Implementing AquaBrowser at the University of Pittsburgh." Fall meeting of the Atlantic Chapter of the Music Library Association, Gettysburg College, September 2009.

Member of the Faculty Affairs Committee of the University Library System, 2012-2014.

Secretary of the Executive Committee of the University Library System Faculty Assembly, 2010-2012.

Co-Instructor / Guest Lecturer in Pitt's School of Library and Information Science, 2008-2012.

Guest lecturer and/or performer in various Music Department courses: Principles of Research and Bibliography (MUSIC 2111), History of Jazz (MUSIC 711), Music in Latin America (MUSIC 1332), and Introduction to World Music (MUSIC 311).

Have appeared regularly as a performing instrumentalist at the Center for Latin American Studies' annual Latin American and Caribbean Festivals.