Bonnie C. Wade is Professor of Music, Dean of Undergraduate Services and Chair of the Deans of the College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Berkeley. She has done extensive field work in South Asia, primarily in India, mostly in North India. A member of the Society for Ethnomusicology, she is a former Vice-President of the American Musicological Society and former member of the Directorium of the International Musicological Society. She is the author of several books including Khyal: Creativity within North India's Classical Music Tradition and Imaging Sound: An Ethnomusicological Study of Music, Art, and Culture in Mughal India.
