Martin Stokes is the King Edward Professor of Music. He studied first music, then social anthropology at Oxford. He taught at The Queen's University of Belfast (1989-1997), The University of Chicago (1997-2007) and Oxford University (2007-2012). He gave the Bloch Lectures at Berkeley, The University of California in 2013 and has been a visiting professor at Bogazici University in Istanbul on two occasions.

Research Interests and PhD Supervision

Professor Martin Stokes' work has focused on modern Turkey and Egypt, with broader interests across the Mediterranean and Europe, and with a thematic emphasis on ethnicity and identity, space and place, globalization and religion. His article on "Music and the Global Order" won the Jaap Kunst Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology in 2004; The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music (Chicago University Press 2010) won the Society's Merriam Prize in 2010; and Music and Citizenship (Oxford University Press 2023) won the Society's Nettl Prize in 2024. He was awarded the Dent Medal by the Royal Musical Association in 2010, and was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2012.

Teaching

Martin teaches a range of courses in ethnomusicology and the anthropology of music, covering broad historical, methodological and ethnographic issues, at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, many, but not all, with a focus on the music of the Middle East and the Islamic world.

Selected publications

• Ethnicity, Identity and Music: The Musical Construction of Place (Berg 1994, edited M. Stokes)
• The Arabesk Debate: Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey (Oxford 1992, second edition 2021)
• The Republic of Love: Popular Music and Cultural Intimacy in Turkey (Chicago 2010)
• Music and Citizenship (Oxford 2023)