Expertise

Research interests:

  • Africa
  • music and religion
  • mask performance
  • ritual
  • identity
  • popular music
  • immigration
  • transnationalism
  • diaspora
  • music and health

Research + Teaching Interests: music and religion; mask performance; ritual; identity; popular music; immigration; transnationalism; diaspora; music and health; Ivorian immigrants in the U.S.

Regional Expertise: Côte d’Ivoire; Mali; Guinée

Communities
Literature, Middle Eastern Studies, Music, African Studies
Degrees
PhD, Indiana University, Ethnomusicology and Folklore, 1999
MA, Indiana University, Folklore and Ethnomusicology, 1995
BA, Ohio University, English Literature, 1985