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Richard Miller is an associate professor of Ethnomusicology. He came to UNLV from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he earned his M.M. and Ph.D. degrees focusing on 15th-century Korean music and late 19th-century Japanese music and music education. Experienced in both historical and anthropological approaches, Richard has conducted fieldwork and archival research in the United States, Indonesia, China, and Japan with work that emphasizes the intersection of history, social science, political economy, music, and education. He has published a book on Leonardo Balada and Surrealism in Music and another on K-12 teacher education (forthcoming with Palgrave), and numerous articles in journals such as Asian Music, the Journal of Asian Studies, Ethnomusicology, Review of Research in Education, Educational Review, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Thresholds in Education, and the Review of Research in Education. His current projects include the study of global popular music, the rise of Western-style music and music studies in Asia, and issues of diversity in K-12 and higher education and teacher education.

Richard is an accomplished performer, teacher, and leader of the gamelan music of Central Java. A seasoned teacher, he has taught Ethnomusicology and Music History courses, East Asian Studies courses, and Teacher Education courses at multiple universities in the United States and China. Among the topics he teaches at UNLV are undergraduate surveys (Classical through Romantic, 20th Century, American Music). special-topic courses (Global Asian Popular Culture, Music and Text), and graduate courses (The Study of Musical Instruments, Music of East and Southeast Asia, Western Music in Asia, Music Race and Class, and 20th Century Experimental Music).