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Carolyn Merritt
Back to all Carolyn Merritt is a mom, anthropologist, dancer, and author (Tango Nuevo, 2012). She lives in Philadelphia, where she works as a writer and development consultant, teaches yoga, and serves as co-director of the nascent Tango Therapy Project.
J. Lucas McKay
Back to all J. Lucas McKay is Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Neurology at the Emory University School of Medicine. He holds ScB and ScM degrees in Electrical Engineering from Brown University, a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and an MS in Clinical Research from Emory University. […]
Ilene Marder
Back to all Ilene Marder (“Tango DJ La Rubia Del Norte”) is one of New York City’s most popular Argentine Tango DJ’s. Known for her beautiful tandas and ability to read and energize a crowd, she has played for such iconic tango salons of Buenos Aires as Parakultural at Salon Canning and Salon Marabu, Porteño y Bailarin, […]
Morgan James Luker
Back to all Morgan James Luker is Associate Professor of Music at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of The Tango Machine: Musical Culture in the Age of Expediency (2016) and the founding director Tango for Musicians at Reed College. Morgan’s current research examines the materiality and management of historical sound recordings […]
Kacey Link
Back to all Kacey Link is the co-project director for the NEH Tango in the Humanities Conference and an independent scholar and pianist residing in Los Angeles, CA. With her tango research partner Kristin Wendland, she has co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Tango and co-authored and published Tracing Tangueros: Argentine Tango Instrumental Music (2016), and […]
Julia Kaesmayr
Back to all Dr. Julia Kaesmayr has spent over a decade as a tango organizer and musicalizadora de tango, blending 30 years of social dancing with her academic insights to enrich the tango community. With a Ph.D. in psychology, she crafts engaging experiences at milongas, encuentros milongueros, and tango marathons across Europe and North America. In […]
Matthew B. Karush
Back to all Matthew B. Karush is Professor of History at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and co-editor of the Journal of Social History. An expert on Argentine political and cultural history, he is the author of several books, including Musicians in Transit: Argentina and the Globalization of Popular Music (2017).
Eric Johns
Back to all Eric Johns is a member of the academic faculty at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts (NOCCA), and Archivist & Curator for the Stone Center for Latin American Studies at Tulane University. His musicological research focuses on epistemology and genre in popular musics. In particular, he is interested in the intersections […]
Madeleine E. Hackney
Back to all Madeleine E. Hackney is Associate Professor of Medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine and a Research Health Scientist with the Atlanta VA. She holds a BFA in Dance Performance from New York University Tisch School of the Arts and a PhD in Movement Science from Washington University in St. Louis. […]
Julián Graciano
Back to all Julián Graciano is a tango guitarist, composer, and arranger in Buenos Aires. Raised in a family of tango musicians, he has systematically worked out a pedagogical method for teaching tango based on his jazz studies. He is the author of Roberto Grela “La guitarra del tango” (February 2024, Melos), Método de guitarra […]