Yona Stamatis

Candidate statement

Yona Stamatis is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Director of the Music Program at the University of Illinois, Springfield. She received her PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of Michigan in 2011. Her research focus is on Greek folk and popular song with special attention to contemporary rebetiko performance in Greece. Her research has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, and a Constantine Tsangadas Fellowship for Hellenic Studies Research. Yona has served on the Ethnomusicology Advisory Council for the College Music Society and chaired the Society for Ethnomusicology Anatolian Ecumene Special Interest Group. She is chair of the 2023 New Directions in Greek Popular Music Research Conference committee. Yona is the founding music editor of Ergon: Greek/American & Diaspora Arts and Letters. She is also an active musician, performing rebetiko bouzouki and violin.