RESEARCH

I am an Assistant Professor of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at Brown University.

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I completed my PhD in the Department of Music at Princeton University as a 2023-2024 graduate fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) 

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I am a researcher with 9 years of research experience studying music of Africa and the Black diaspora. My research focuses on the global circulation, experience, remediations, and contextualization of Black music genres as these genres move between geographical locations, offline and online communities, and across digital platforms. My other interests include the music industry, music and tech, sound studies, popular music studies, and media studies. 

My theoretical and practical approach to music research often takes a deep examination of music from a social and cultural perspective to understand the role of music in society, the technologies and mechanisms for music circulation, and the experience of music and musical meaning within different sociocultural contexts. 

 Between 2021 and 2022, I was a visiting fellow at the Humanities Branch of the Spanish National Research Council in Barcelona (IMF-CSIC). In 2023, I was awarded the Eugene K Wolf research grant by the American Musicological Society for MY dissertation "Between Acousmatic Blackness and Blacksound: The Cultural Politics of Black Music in Spain" 

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Through Princeton University GradFutures Social Impact fellowships, I worked as a researcher with some music non-profit organizations such as the Newark Symphony Hall and the CME Music Policy Resilience Network.