(BA in Music and Russian Regional from Barnard College, 2002; M.A., M.Phil. in Ethnomusicology from Columbia University, 2005, 2006). Lauren Ninoshvili is currently preparing a dissertation on the use of vocables in contemporary Georgian folk-fusion music. Her fieldwork, carried out primarily in Tbilisi, was supported by an Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO) grant from the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX). Lauren has presented her work at academic conferences in the US and Europe. Her article, “Report from the Kitchen Sink: The Supra and the Seeds of a Georgian Feminism” appears in the edited volume Nation in Formation: Inclusion and Exclusion in Central and Eastern Europe (London: UCL-SSEES, 2007). Lauren’s research interests include the folk and sacred polyphony of the South Caucasus Republic of Georgia, language and music, translation theory, and the language of world music. She is book reviews editor for Current Musicology, Columbia’s peer-reviewed journal.
Email: ln2106@columbia.edu