Mohsen Mohammadi is a musicologist affiliated with University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is a specialist in the music of Iran and the Middle/Central/Near East, both as a setar player and a scholar. His research interests encompass the history of music in oral traditions, the classicization of non-Western musical cultures, and the analysis of early recordings. He draws upon diverse primary sources, including manuscripts, oral narratives, and early recordings, to illuminate musical cultures in Persian and Indo-Persian regions. He holds a PhD in Musicology (Utrecht/UCLA), MA in History, and BA in Music, both from the University of Tehran. His publications are available at: https://ucla.academia.edu/Mohammadi