Udo Will served as a professor in the area of ethnomusicology, thanks to the support of a prestigious Academic Enrichment Award to the School of Music from the university. Dr. Will has held teaching positions at the University of Bielefeld (both in the Departments of Music and Sociology), and at the University of New England in Armidale, Australia. He is president of the European Seminar in Ethnomusicology, and serves on the editorial board of the British Journal for Ethnomusicology.