Stirr, Anna Marie

July 25, 2008 by astirr

(B.A. in Music [flute performance] and Religious Studies, Lawrence University 2002; M.A. in Ethnomusicology, Columbia 2005). Anna's undergraduate work focused on music/sound in Hindu and Buddhist practice. Her M.A. thesis, "Conflict and Confluence: Constructing and Crossing Boundaries at the Ahiri Institute for Indian Music and Dance," examined Indian classical performers’ representation of Indian heritage in intercultural situations in New York City. Anna's dissertation project addresses the role of an emerging Nepali popular genre, dohori git, in rural-urban migrants' negotiation of gendered national identity. Work based on this research was presented at the 2006 meeting of IASPM-USA. Her research interests include Nepali and other Himalayan musics, media and circulation, performance theory, and the role of music and sound in development and social movements. Anna has been a Columbia Teaching Fellow and has received the FLAS for summer study of Nepali (2004), and the Columbia Summer Travel Grant for research in Nepal (2005). Her dissertation research is being supported by Fulbright-Hays and the Social Science Research Council.
Email: ams2110@columbia.edu

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