Writing

I am currently an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Performing Arts at Georgetown University. In 2023 I received my PhD in Historical Musicology from New York University. Previously, I have been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies (BBQ+) and a Postdoctoral Associate at the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, where I also taught in the Department of English.

I am currently working on a book tentatively titled "The Geopolitics of Voice: Music, Sound, and Law in the Native Nineteenth Century."

Academic publications:

"Opera and Land: Settler Colonialism and the Geopolitics of Music at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1879-1909," Journal of the Society for American Music (2024)
Open access link

"Aurality, Non-Locality, History," contribution to a roundtable commemorating 10 years since the publication of Ana Maria Ochoa's Aurality. (American Music, 2025.)

For "Music, Sound, and Law in the Americas," forthcoming special issue of American Music (guest editor):
"Words in a Dope Order, or, Critical Approaches to Music, Sound, and Law in the Americas" (issue introduction)
"Territory Folks: Law, Violence, and the Political in Raven Chacon's American Ledger and Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!" (research article)

"Autonomy" in Insurgent Music Theory, Jade Conlee and Tatiana Koike, eds. (University of Michigan Press, forthcoming)

"Conjuring Abolition Phonography in A Record Album Interpretation," TDR: The Drama Review (2020)

Book reviews and alternative formats

“Why Resonance? A Response to Julie Beth Napolin’s The Fact of Resonance: Modernist Acoustics and Narrative Form (New York: Fordham University Press, 2020),” Syndicate online forum (forthcoming)

“Listening, Elsewhere and Otherwise: A Collective Listening to Shana L. Redmond’s ‘The Dark Prelude,’” with Shana L. Redmond, Joshua Chambers-Letson, Maya Kronfeld, Matthew Morrison, and Juno Richards, Journal of Popular Music Studies (2024)

“REVIEW: Martha Feldman and Judith T. Zeitlin, editors. The Voice as Something More: Essays Towards Materiality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.” Revue de musicologie (2021)

“REVIEW: Dylan Robinson, Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020.” Current Musicology (2021)

Other manuscripts in preparation

"Field Recording and the Politics of Place: from Luc Ferrari's Presque Rien to Raven Chacon's Silent Choir," invited contribution to Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Sound Studies, Volume II: Arts, Practices, Theories

"Music of the Spheres: Marxist and Indigenous Critiques of Reification," invitated contribution to colloquy on "Marxist Music Studies Now: New Directions and Non-Reductive Solidarities"

"Two Simultaneous Ways of Relating to Earth: The Diaries of Bamewawagezhikaquay and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft," invited article for History of Anthropology Review's "Clio's Fancy" series

Please feel free to contact me for copies of any of these pieces.
Full CV available upon request.