Hilversum, North Holland, Netherlands
I am a Netherlands-based teacher, researcher, and ethnomusicologist. My areas of teaching include global musics, sound studies, media studies, cultural studies, academic writing and skills, qualitative research methods, audio preservation, critical thought/humanities, digital humanities. My research specializations include ethnomusicology, sound studies, Dutch colonial history, music and migration, Suriname/the Caribbean, Indonesian music, ethnographic and historical methods, digital humanities, audio/media/digital archives, environmental humanities, birds.
Assistant Professor of Contested Archives, Media and Memory Department of Media Studies Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture
-Postdoc, Polyvocal Interpretations of Contested Colonial Heritage (PICCH). www.picch-project.org
-Co-organizer of seminar/workshop series "Aurality: Musical Modes of Knowledge Inscription"
-Lecturer in the Department of Arts and Culture Studies, Erasmus University -Courses in media and culture studies, qualitative research methods, academic skills -Supervision of Master and Bachelor theses
-Dissertation: "Iron Gongs and Singing Birds: Paths of Migration and Acoustic Assemblages of Alterity in the Former Dutch Colonial Empire" -Fulbright Hays Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Mellon Humanities Fellowship -Designed and taught courses in music, sound studies, humanities -Mellon Graduate Student Intern in Primary Sources -Research Assistant, Community-Partnered Repatriation of Iñupiat Music