Robert Albrecht completed his undergraduate degree at St. Peter’s College where he majored in Urban Studies. As a participant in a Junior Abroad Program, he traveled to South America where he studied at the University of Chile in Santiago. Shortly after returning from his studies abroad, Albrecht took his master’s degree in Urban Studies at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. His master’s degree thesis project took him to Brazil where he lived for a year and studied migratory patterns of individuals living in a shantytown (favela) on the outskirts of the city of Salvador. After nearly a decade in the Midwest, Albrecht returned to the East in order to work toward a doctoral degree in the Department of Communication and Culture at New York University. For his doctoral research, Albrecht traveled to Brazil once more, this time to study the consequences of electronic technology upon the musical experiences of people living in a small, rural community in the nation’s interior.

 

Albrecht began his career at New Jersey City University in 1997 after teaching at the State University of New York in Cortland and at St. Peter’s College in Jersey City. Dr. Albrecht is the author of numerous articles on the relationship of media and culture in both Latin America and here in the United States. Albrecht’s book, Mediating the Muse: A Communications Approach to Music, Media and Cultural Change (2005), was awarded the Dorothy Lee Prize for its contribution to “scholarship in the ecology of culture.” He is also the recipient of an Organization of American States Fellowship for study in Brazil as well as the Carlos Vigil Prize. He has served as Arts Editor to ETC. and currently serves on the editorial board of several communication journals.