[4] She studied with A. J. Racy, Timothy Rice, Nazir Jairazbhoy, Gerard Behague, and Scott Marcus.
[5] Rasmussen has been teaching courses in ethnomusicology at The College of William & Mary since 1993,[4] where she also directs with Middle Eastern Music Ensemble.
[3] Rasmussen accompanied Indonesian Qur'an reciter Maria Ulfah during the latter's 1999 tour of the United States under the auspices of the Middle East Studies Association of North America.
[4] In 2002, Rasmussen won the Jaap Kunst Prize for her work "The Qur'an in Indonesian Daily Life: The Public Project of Musical Oratory"[7] from the Society for Ethnomusicology.
[9] In 2011, her book Women, the Recited Qur’an, and Islamic Music in Indonesia received the Alan Merriam Prize Honorable Mention.