[1] He is the Ludwig Rosenberger Distinguished Service Professor in Jewish History, Music and the Humanities at the University of Chicago and a visiting professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater (Hannover).

[2] Bohlman's research has been funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and often includes fieldwork in Kolkata and Varanasi, India, and throughout Germany, with current fieldwork in India and the Muslim communities of Europe.

Bohlman also frequently engages in intensive studies of the Eurovision Song Contest.

[2] Bohlman is also the Artistic Director of “The New Budapest Orpheum Society” at the University of Chicago.

In 1997, he was the first ethnomusicologist to receive the Edward J. Dent Medal from the Royal Musical Association,[2][5] and also received the Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin in 2003, the Derek Allen Prize from the British Academy in 2007, and a Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching from the University of Chicago in 1999.