Aaron S. Allen (2012 Fellow) is director of the Environment and Sustainability Program at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, where he is also associate professor of musicology. His scholarship focuses on the relationships between music cultures and planetary pressures. 

Allen has coedited two ecomusicology collections: Current Directions in Ecomusicology: Music, Culture, Nature (2016), which won the 2018 Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology; and Sounds, Ecologies, Musics (2023). He earned a PhD from Harvard University with a dissertation on the nineteenth-century Italian reception of Beethoven. Allen’s BA in music and BS in ecological studies are from Tulane University.