Jessica Schwartz

Jessica Schwartz is an associate professor in the Department of Musicology at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. She is also affiliated with the UCLA Library of Special Collections Punk Archive and the UCLA Center for Community Engagement.

Her areas of expertise include DIY punk, commercial punk and related subcultures; intersectionality and disability in punk; music and culture in atomic age/Cold War America; and U.S. militarism, nuclear testing/Indigenous experiences and environmental issues in the Pacific, specifically the Marshall Islands.

Schwartz is the author of “Radiation Sounds: Marshallese Music & Nuclear Silences” (2021) and co-founder and academic advisor of the nonprofit Marshallese Educational Initiative.

To reach Schwartz, email her at [email protected].