Expertise

Research interests:

  • Israel/Palestine
  • performance ethnography
  • social theory
  • ethnomusicological study of violence and socio-cultural trauma
  • activism and critical ethnography
  • protest songs

Research:

  • Folklore
  • Ireland
  • Music
  • Nationalism
  • Performance
  • Sectarianism
Communities
European Studies, Literature, Middle Eastern Studies, Music, Anthropology
Degrees
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ethnomusicology, 2006
MM, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ethnomusicology, 2001
BM, Colorado State University, Music Performance, 1998