Aaron Singer

Aaron Singer was born and raised in Southern California. He earned a master’s degree in Southeast Asian Studies from the University of California, Riverside, and a PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of Hawai′i. Since 2007, he has lived and conducted fieldwork, for various periods of time, in both Indonesia and Japan. In 2018, he was a visiting researcher at the University of Indonesia through a Japan Foundation grant. Since 2019 he has lived with his family in the Paris area where he is a lecturer at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and L’Insitutut libre d’étude des relations internationals. He is also a musician specializing in music from Indonesia and Okinawa, Japan. A lifelong activist for social and environmental causes, he has been an AARO volunteer since 2020.