As a faculty member within the Bandier Program at Syracuse University, Dr. Ulf Oesterle has been teaching about the music business for the last 16 years with courses touching on recorded music, live music, social media strategy and data within the music business. He completed his doctorate in Mass Communications from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University in 2007, spent several years as the Music and Entertainment Industries Department Chair, Interim Director of The Bandier Program and Interim Chair of Audio Arts (M.A.). Oesterle is an educator and practitioner, having operated a small record label, an artist management company and has history with radio programming and hosting a commercial specialty show for a few years.
Outside of campus, Dr. Oesterle currently sits on the board of the Music and Entertainment Educators Association (MEIEA), contributes to educational endeavors for Show Makers, speaks at conferences regularly and consults about TikTok strategy while managing his own creator presence on the platform.