Jacqueline Pugh-Kitingan

Jacqueline Pugh-Kitingan is a Distinguished Fellow and Head of the Indigenous Culture and Heritage Cluster of the Borneo Institute for Indigenous Studies (BoRIS), at Universiti Malaysia Sabah where she formerly served as Professor of Ethnomusicology and also held the Kadazan Dusun Chair. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Queensland (1982) and B.A. Honours (First Class) from Monash University (1976) with a thesis based on her ethnomusicological research among the Huli of Papua New Guinea. She is the Regional Vice President for Sabah of the Borneo Research Council and an executive committee member of the ICTMD Study Group on the Performing Arts of Southeast Asia.