Abbreviated CV

“Channeling Lightning: Witnessing Flickering Victories on U.S. Community Radio.” Ethnomusicology and the Present: British Forum for Ethnomusicology 2026 Annual General Meeting. London, UK. April 9 – 12, 2026.

“‘Speak! Speak! Speak!’: Community Radio Archives Against Institutionalized Authoritarianism in the U.S.” Music and the State: International Association for the Study of Popular Music – US Chapter 2026 Annual Conference. Washington, D.C. March 1, 2026.

“Slash, Burn, Broadcast: Radiophonic Echoes of Labor, Loss, and Carrying On.” Musicking Communities and Labor symposium. University of Texas at Austin. Austin, TX. February 14, 2026.

“‘Real People’ on the Air: Undefining the Local Through Community Radio’s Eclectic Aesthetics.” Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association 2025 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 20, 2025.

“‘The Airwaves Belong to the Public’: Systems of Knowledge Production in Community Radio Archives.” American Folklore Society 2025 Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA, October 19, 2025.

“Roots, Routes, and Repertoires: Community Radio Archives and Imaginaries.” Fifteenth International Doctoral Workshop in Ethnomusicology. Center for World Music, University of Hildesheim and Hanover University of Music, Drama, and Media, Hildesheim, Germany. June 24, 2025.

“‘We Will Learn About Each Other’: Radiophonic Lessons in Community.” Colloquium talk. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. February 21, 2025.

“In Community with Coltrane: Remapping San Francisco on ‘Poor People’s Radio.’” Crossing the Global Storm: Networks, Solidarities, and Communities in Struggle: American Folklore Society 2024 Annual Meeting. Albuquerque, NM, November 8, 2024.

“Airborne Transmissions: Emergent Signals of Place, Personhood, and Care on Community Radio.” Music in Difficult Times: Global – Plural Temporalities symposium. Matralab, Concordia University. Montréal, QC, May 4, 2024.

“No Dead Air: Sounding, Sensing, and Shaping Community through Radiophonic Irregularities and Improvisations.” Thirtieth Annual Symposium of Research in Music. Indiana University. Bloomington, IN, February 24, 2024.

“Race and Radio in the U.S.” Course lecture, Global Pop Music, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. September 26, 2023.

“The Long-Term Impact of Ethnographic Field Schools on Students: A Roundtable Discussion with Ethnographic Field School in Belize Alumni” (with Douglas Hume, et al). Roundtable presentation, Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting. Cincinnati, OH, March 28, 2023.

“Music, Nationalism, and the ‘Europeanness of Music’ in Europe.” Course lecture, Introduction to World Music and Culture, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. November 7, 2022.

“A ‘Global Citizen’ on Hyperlocal Media: Live Performances of Place and Personhood on Community Radio.” Re-Centering the Periphery: American Folklore Society 2022 Annual Meeting. Tulsa, OK, October 15, 2022.

“Archives and Airwaves: Engaging with Translocal Mobilities through Radio Performance.” Grooves and Movements: International Association for the Study of Popular Music – US Chapter 2022 Annual Conference. Ann Arbor, MI, May 26, 2022.

“People, Places, and Paranda: Performing Transnational Identities at Garifuna Street Fest.” Fifth Annual César E. Chávez Undergraduate Research Symposium. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, March 29, 2019.

“‘Far from Our Country’: Negotiating Diasporic Garifuna Identity in Transnational Arenas.” Twelfth Annual IU/OSU Joint University Conference in Folklore and Ethnomusicology. Bloomington, IN, February 23, 2019.

“‘Still We Hold On’: Connecting Members of the Garifuna Nation across Time and Space.” Thirteenth Annual Indiana University Folklore and Ethnomusicology Undergraduate Research Symposium. Bloomington, IN, December 4, 2018.