Eric Hung

Eric Hung is Executive Director of the Music of Asian America Research Center and Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Marylands College of Information Studies. His research focuses on Asian American music, music and trauma, Asian Americans in library and information science, and public musicology. Current projects include curating the Asian American + Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Learning Pathway for Smithsonian Folkways, and serving as writer for the Sound Check! The Music We Make Exhibit at Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience. Before he joined the non-profit world full-time, Eric was a tenure-track and tenured professor of musicology at Westminster Choir College of Rider University and the University of Montana. He is an active pianist who has performed in Germany, Austria, Australia, Thailand, and throughout North America.