Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco

Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco is Professor of Ethnomusicology and Director of the Institute of Ethnomusicology–Center for Music and Dance (INET-md) at the New University of Lisbon in Portugal. She is the editor of the four-volume Encyclopedia of Music in Twentieth Century Portugal. She is currently the President of the International Council for Traditional Music.

Castel-Branco conducted field research in Portugal, Egypt and Oman resulting in publications on cultural politics, musical nationalism, identity, music media, modernity, and music and conflict.

She received her doctorate from Columbia University, taught at New York University, and was a visiting professor at Columbia University, Princeton University and Chicago University.