Expertise

Research interests

  • Latin American and Latinx cultural practices
  • Music and sound in sports and games
  • Sound studies
  • Soccer, masculinity, violence
  • Coloniality/postcoloniality/decoloniality
  • Ethnography of elites
  • Experimental music studies
  • Cultural diplomacy and philanthropy
Degrees
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Musicology/Ethnomusicology, 2013
M.M., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Music Theory, 2004
B.M., Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Music History, 2002