All affiliated faculty are UConn professors who engage in scholarship and teaching related to popular music. These forms of popular music are not constricted to the United States or the current generation of music. Several faculty have written books and articles on popular music, most have taught courses on various forms of popular music.
| Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar | (Director) Professor of History |
| Dexter Gabriel | Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies |
| Walter Woodward | Associate Professor of History and Connecticut State Historian |
| Eric Rice | Department Head, Associate Professor of Music History, Director of Collegium Musicum |
| Lewis Gordon | Professor and Department Head (Philosophy) |
| Grégory Pierrot | Associate Professor of English |
| John Mastroianni | Assistant Professor in Residence of Jazz Studies |