Tim Watkins teaches music history, literature, and world music at Rhodes College. Prior to teaching at Rhodes, Dr. Watkins taught ethnomusicology and world music as well as music history and literature at Florida State University and Furman University. His research interests include topics in Renaissance and Baroque music as well as the music of Latin America, centering on the musical consequences of the encounter between European and Indigenous cultures in the Americas.

Dr. Watkins regularly presents scholarly papers at regional and national meetings of the American Musicological Society, the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, the Society for Ethnomusicology, and the College Music Society. His publications have appeared in the monumental Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Garland Handbook of Latin American Music, and The Journal of Musicological Research.  He is currently editing the book Performance Practice:  Issues and Approaches, scheduled for publication by Steglein press in January, 2008.

Dr. Watkins is also an accomplished church musician and conductor and he has presented workshops and seminars on subjects including hymnology and liturgical history and practice.