Center for the Study of Global Change

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Amy Horowitz's career spans academic and public sectors. She was Program Director for A Global Assessment of the 1989 UNESCO Recommendation on the Safeguarding of Traditional Culture International Conference, co-hosted by the Smithsonian and UNESCO in 1998. She served as Assistant and Acting Director for Smithsonian Folkways Recordings where she received a Grammy as co-producer for the reissue of the Anthology of American Folk Music and supervised over eighty projects on locally situated global music. She was curator/researcher for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival’s Czech Republic, Music of Struggle, and Sacred Sounds and Jerusalem. Sweet Honey in the Rock credits her as central to their global reach.

At The Ohio State University’s Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Horowitz was Principal Investigator of Protest Music as Responsible Citizenship: A Conversation with Harry Belafonte, Pete Seeger, Bernice Johnson Reagon and Holly Near, The Salaam Shalom Peace Projectcomprised of 5th grade students from local Muslim, Christian and Jewish Day Schools, and Living Jerusalem. She directed two symposia initiated by the Executive Dean of the College of Humanities:Negotiating Cultural Identities, Global Media, and International Security and Home and Away: Redefining Security under the Impact of Global Media. 

Horowitz teaches courses on Human Rights and Social Movements, Music in Disputed Territories: The Cultural Implications of Globalization, and Living Jerusalem: Ethnography and Blog Bridging in Disputed Territory through the International Studies Program at Indiana University and Ohio State. She is interested in how global conflicts can be understood in local cultural terms. Her book,Mediterranean Israeli Music: The Politics of the Aesthetic won honorable mention in the Jordan Schnizter book award at the Association for Jewish Studies in 2010.