Samantha Jones is an ethnomusicologist, musician and dancer. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow with the Fellowships and Writing Center in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. She earned her PhD in ethnomusicology from the Harvard Music Department, where she wrote a dissertation on musical embodiment and cultural transmission among Irish dancers in the Boston metropolitan area. She earned her Master's degree in ethnomusicology at Boston University and holds undergraduate degrees in music and cognitive science from the University of Connecticut. She has presented her research at conferences in the United States, UK, and Ireland, including the Society for Ethnomusicology, the American Musicological Society, and the Society for American Music.