Expertise

Research interests:

  • Haiti, Caribbean, Latin America
  • ecomusicology, diverse environmentalisms, sacred ecologies, environmental justice
  • carnival, protest, revolution, politically engaged music
  • creative responses to crisis, disaster, poverty, violence, trauma
  • development discourse, grassroots development
  • arts activism and international NGOs, aid, and humanitarianism
  • intangible cultural heritage and cultural policy
  • archives, archival silences, hidden archives and accidental archivists
  • Haitian classical/art music
  • film as ethnography
  • applied/engaged/activist ethnomusicology
Communities
Literature, Chicano/a Studies, Music, International Studies
Degrees
PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, Ethnomusicology, 2012
MA, Roehampton University, Music and Culture, 2006
BM, Lawrence University, Piano Performance, 2003
Honors

Laura Boulton Professor, Indiana University, 2022-23

Honourable Mention for the International Council for Traditional Music Book Prize for After the Dance, the Drums Are Heavy, International Council for Traditional Music, 2021

Interdisciplinary Fellow at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University, 2020-21

Trustees Teaching Award, Indiana University, 2019

The Work of the Humanities in a Changing Climate Grand Research Challenge: “Field to Media: Applied Musicology for a Changing Climate”, Humanities Without Walls, 2018-20

Radcliffe Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, 2016-17