Mario Dunkel is Professor of Music Education with a focus on 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 completed his doctorate in American Studies/Cultural Studies at TU Dortmund University. In 2017, he took up the position of Junior Professor of Music Education with a focus on transcultural music education at the Institute of Music at UOL. He was appointed university professor in March 2023.

His research focus includes music education and transcultural music education, connections between music and politics as well as cultural and musicological research on jazz and popular music. He is 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 Jazz Research Journal. He was Principal Investigator of the international research project "Popular Music and the Rise of Populism in Europe" (Volkswagen Foundation, 2019-2023) and has headed the joint project "Digitality - Diversity - Producing: Practices of Popular Music in Schools and Further Education" (BMBF, 2023-2026) since 2023.

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• 2002-08 Studied music/English as a secondary I/II teacher (TU Dortmund)
• 2005-06 Stay 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 University)
• 2010-13 Doctoral scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation
• 2013-17 Research assistant at the Institute of Music and Musicology (TU Dortmund University)
  • May 2014 Doctorate in Cultural Studies/American Studies (TU Dortmund University)
• 2018-21 Associate Research Fellow, Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg
• 2017-2023: Junior Professor of Music Education with a focus on transcultural music education (UOL)
• 2023: Appointment as University Professor of Music Education with a focus on transcultural music education (UOL)