Organizations/Performing Group:

British Forum for Ethnomusicology, member, 2021 to 2022
Performing Arts of Southeast Asia-ICTM Study Group, 2020 to 2021
Society for Ethnomusicology, member, 2014 to 2020
International Council for Traditional Music, member, 2021
University of Michigan Society for Music Research, member, 2015 to 2016
Musika Sophia Recorder Ensemble, member, 2011 to 2014
Auit Chamber Vocal Ensemble, member, 2009
UP Middle Eastern Music Ensemble, member, 2004

Awards and Recognition:

JUDITH BECKER AWARD
FULBRIGHT GRADUATE STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP, The Fulbright Association, 2014
PRESSER GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD, The Presser Foundation, 2016
GLENN MCGEOCH MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP for Outstanding Instruction of Music Undergraduates, University of Michigan Department of Musicology, 2017
RACKHAM HUMANITIES DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP, University of Michigan, 2019, 2020, and 2021
RACKHAM INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AWARD, University of Michigan, 2017 and 2019
EDUARDO AND AURORA SEVILLA GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD, University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School, 2020
LOUISE CUYLER AWARD for Outstanding Conference Paper, University of Michigan Department of Musicology, 2021


Lisa Decenteceo is an ethnomusicologist who studies the intricate cultural politics of indigeneity and its musical renderings in public and intimate settings. Affect theory, sound studies, the cultural-intellectual history of ethnomusicology, applied ethnomusicology, disability studies in music, and translations of anti-racism are among her other current research interests. Through an ongoing collaboration with communities and individuals based in various locations of the Cordillera region, Lisa has written her dissertation “From Being to Becoming: Protests, Festivals, and Musical Mediations of Igorot Indigeneity” and earned a PhD in ethnomusicology at the University of Michigan. She also holds a Graduate Certificate in world performance studies from the same university. Lisa has presented her work at conferences by the International Council for Traditional Music, Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies, the British Forum for Ethnomusicology, and the Society for Ethnomusicology. She has taught Philippine music literature at the University of the Philippines, and for courses on US American music history and popular music, Western music history, musicology, and gamelan at the University of Michigan. Before graduating with a bachelor’s degree in musicology at the University of the Philippines in 2012, Lisa began as a piano student and earned a Diploma in Performing and Creative Musical Arts in music education in 2010. She has also performed for ensembles affiliated with the University of the Philippines College of Music.