Mario Dunkel is a professor of music education, specialising in transcultural music education, at the Institute of Music at the University of Oldenburg (UOL). He studied music, English and American Studies in Dortmund, Atlanta and New York. In 2014, he was awarded a PhD in American Studies/Cultural Studies at TU Dortmund University. In 2017, he took up the post of Assistant Professor of Music Education, specialising in transcultural music education, at the Institute of Music at UOL. In March 2023, he was appointed Full Professor.

His main research focuses include music education and transcultural music education, the interrelationships between music and politics, and cultural and musicological research into jazz and popular music. He is, amongst other things, the author of *The Stories of Jazz: Narrating a Musical Tradition* (2021), co-editor of *Popular Music and Public Diplomacy: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Perspectives* (2019, with Sina A. Nitzsche) and a special issue of the journal *Popular Music* on ‘Popular Music and Populism’ (2022, with Melanie Schiller), as well as a member of the editorial boards of *Jazz Education in Research and Practice* and the *Jazz Research Journal*. He was the principal investigator of the international research project ‘Popular Music and the Rise of Populism in Europe’ (Volkswagen Foundation, 2019–2023) and, since 2023, has been leading the joint project ‘Digitality – Diversity – Producing: Practices of Popular Music in Schools and Further Education’ (BMBF, 2023–2026).

CURRICULUM VITAE

• 2002–08 Studied Music and English to become a secondary school teacher (TU Dortmund)
• 2005–06 Study abroad, Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, GA
• 2007–08 German Teaching Fellow, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
• 2009–10 Research Assistant, Institute of English and American Studies (TU Dortmund)
• 2010–13 PhD scholarship holder at the German National Academic Foundation
• 2011 Visiting Scholar, Columbia University, New York City
• 2013–17 Research Assistant at the Institute of Music and Musicology (Dortmund Technical University)
• 2013 Berger-Carter Fellow, Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
• May 2014 PhD in Cultural Studies/American Studies (TU Dortmund)
• 2017–23 Assistant Professor of Music Education specialising in transcultural music education (UOL)
• February 2019 Erasmus Teaching Mobility, Birmingham City University, UK
• 2018–21 Associate Research Fellow, Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg
• 2023–– University Professor of Music Education specialising in transcultural music education (UOL)