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Graduate StudentsStirr, Anna Marie
(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. Sonevytsky, Maria
(BA in Slavic Regional Studies and Music, Barnard College, 2003) is
interested in music in diaspora, particularly in processes of nostalgia
and ideologies of authentic experience. Her undergraduate research
focused on music of post-Soviet Ukraine, post-Communist Poland,
Bulgaria, Hungary and the former Yugoslavia, culminating in a thesis on
appropriations of folk symbology in post-Soviet Ukrainian rock and
avant garde festivals. Currently, she is focusing on the Ukrainian
diasporas of Brazil and Argentina. In addition to her ethnomusicologial
pursuits, Maria performs many kinds of music on the accordion, piano,
and oboe.
See Maria's Accordion project website Email: ms2147@columbia.edu Skinner, Ryan
(B.A. magna cum laude 2000, French and Francophone Studies,
Carleton College; M.A. 2005, M.Phil. 2006, Ethnomusicology, Columbia
University) studies music, aurality, postcoloniality, and urban culture
in Mali, West Africa. Ryan has conducted extensive fieldwork in West
Africa, Europe, and the United States, focusing on musical performance
and listening practices among Mande peoples worldwide (view Ryan's CV here).
In his Master’s Thesis, “Jeliya in New York City: An Ethnography of
Space, Travel, and Practice in Urban America” (2005), Ryan discusses
the interrelation of migratory experiences, musical expression, and
cultural identity in the Mande diaspora of New York City. In his
article, "Determined Urbanites: Diasporic Jeliya in the 21st Century"
(Mande Studies Vol. 6, 2004), Ryan elucidates a modern "culture of
travel" among West African musicians practicing an increasingly global
tradition of praise singing, instrumental performance, storytelling,
and dance known as jeliya.
Ryan’s current dissertation fieldwork focuses on the musical politics
and poetics of personhood in postcolonial Bamako, Mali. This work is
supported by dissertation research fellowships from the Social Science Research Council (International Dissertation Research Fellowship) and Wenner-Gren Foundation. Ryan will be in Mali from October 2006 to November 2007. Saibou, Marceline
(MM in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the Hochschule für Musik,
Köln, Germany 1995 with a thesis on "Traditional Forms of Music Making
in the Cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa"; Certificate in African Studies
from the Institute of African Studies at Columbia with a final research
paper on "Cultural Nationalism in Guinea and Les Ballets Africains;
1947-1967;" MA and MPhil in Ethnomusicology from Columbia) wrote an MA
thesis at Columbia entitled "African Dance in New York City -
Constructing and Negotiating Identities"; MPhil 2002). Her areas of
interest are West Africa and Afghanistan. She is currently conducting
dissertation field research on urban popular music in Togo, West
Africa. She served as TA for the Asian Music Humanities and the Western
Music Humanities courses at Columbia, as well as an editorial assistant
for the ICTM UNESCO collection project.
Email: ms829@columbia.edu Ninoshvili, Lauren
(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. Mangin, Timothy R.
(BA in music from Bowdoin; two years of MFA studies in world music and
jazz at Cal-Arts; Certificate in African Studies from the Institute for
African Studies at Columbia; MA and MPhil in Ethnomusicology from
Columbia) wrote his MA thesis on "Giant Step: Innovation, Technology
and Performance in a Jazz Inspired Dance Club" which examines the
appropriation of a jazz ideology in an underground New York hip hop
club.. He is currently writing a dissertation entitled "Senegalese
Urban Popular Music: Jazz, Mbalax, and Rap" based on fieldwork in
Senegal supported by the Ford Foundation, and holds a pre-doctoral
writing fellowship at Saint Lawrence University. His academic service
included research on the Malcolm X project at the Institute for
Research in African American Studies at Columbia. He was also a
pre-doctoral fellow in the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on
Globalizing City Cultures at the Center for Comparative Literature and
Society and participates frequently in the activities of the Center for
Jazz Studies. His review of the CD "Keepers of the Talking Drum"
appeared on Ethnomusicology Online (EOL). He presented a paper based on
his research in Senegal at the 2003 national meetings of the Society
for Ethnomusicology.
Email: trm8@columbia.edu read more » Luker, Morgan
(B.A. 2001, Music History, University of Wisconsin, Madison; M.A. 2003, M.Phil 2005, Ethnomusicology, Columbia University.)
Morgan’s
research interests include cultural policy, the cultural industries,
music and economic development, cultural tourism, transnationalism,
aesthetics, and the uses of music history. He has conducted research on
several musical genres, including contemporary Argentine tango,
“downtown” improvised music, and world music. Morgan’s undergraduate
work on avant-garde bassist and producer Bill Laswell received the
Hilldale award for undergraduate research at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison. His M.A. thesis, “Tonight at Tonic: Practicing
Place in a New York Art World” (2003), examined how musical values were
cultivated for non-institutionalized “high art” musics by a
transnational avant-garde music community centered on the nightclub
Tonic, and how that community made sense of the rapid economic
transformation the neighborhood in which the club was physically and
symbolically emplaced was then undergoing. Lawry, Charles
(BA, University of Arizona, 2005)
Emai: cal2135@columbia.edu 
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