Erick Carballo joins the LAMC as Adjunct Lecturer for the 2007-8 Academic year 
Dr. Erick Carballo joins the LAMC as Adjunct Lecturer of Music, to teach M413 - "Latin American Popular Music" this Fall 2007, and M690, the Graduate Seminar in Latin American Music in the Spring of 2008.
Born in Costa Rica and receiving his bachelor's degree in music from the country's Universidad Nacional in Heredia, Carballo received a Fulbright grant in 1992 to study in music theory at the Jacobs School. Since then, he received his master's degree from IU in 1994, has worked closely with the Jacobs School's Latin American Music Center (LAMC), and has been involved in the research and performance of Costa Rican traditional music, particularly the repertory for cimarronas (street folk bands).
With his substantial knowledge in the field of Latin American music, Carballo has also written articles on Venezuelan composers for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
In April Erick received the 2006-2007 Esther L. Kinsley Ph.D. Dissertation Award, the highest honor for a research document that Indiana University bestows upon a student each year. The award, a single prize considered across all academic fields, marks the first time that a student at the IU Jacobs School of Music has won the accolade. The dissertation, "De la pampa al cielo: The Development of Tonality in the Compositional Language of Alberto Ginastera," was directed by Professor David Neumeyer, who commented that "Carballo is the first scholar to bring sophisticated analytic methods to bear on Ginastera's music; in so doing, he goes beyond simple catalogues of style characteristics to construct a coherent and rich narrative of the development of the composer's musical language across his career. By sympathetically but critically addressing the work of some of the best known Latin American musicologists on issues of nationalism and the absorption of folk and popular musics into concert music, Carballo has advanced (and renewed) the methodological framework of musicology in Latin America.
Presently, Carballo combines his pedagogical background and technological interests as instructional and technology consultant and developer for Indiana University's Teaching and Learning Technologies Center (TLTC).