Selected Presentations & Appearances
Symposium: “Enchantings: Modernity, Culture, and the State in Postcolonial Africa."
· December 14, 2012
Lecture
University of Wisconsin
GLOBALMUS International Workshop
· December 14, 2012
Lecture
Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage, Paris
II Simpósio Brasileiro de Pós-Graduandos em Música (one of main speakers)
· December 14, 2012
Lecture
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
School of Music lecture series
· December 14, 2012
Lecture
University of Miami
Music Colloquium
· December 18, 2011
Lecture
Brown University
Class of 1960 Fellow, Music department residency.
· December 18, 2011
Lecture
Williams College
Music Dept lecture series
· December 18, 2011
Lecture
UNC-Chapel Hill
Seminar participation: Contemporary Soundspaces: Sound, Agency, and the Politics of Value
· November 19, 2010
Lecture
University of Liverpool
Luck with Bones: Ngoma cultural Brokerage on the world music circuit
· November 19, 2010
Lecture
American Anthropological Association, New Orleans
Richard Bauman Lecture in human communication
· October 6, 2010
Lecture
Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University, Bloomington
Invited lecture, Distinguished Lecture Series, Musicology Dept
· October 1, 2010
Lecture
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Invited Lecture, Dept of Anthropology
· May 17, 2010
Lecture
University of Chicago
Invited Conference: Listening In/Feeding Back
· November 30, 2009
Lecture
Center for Ethnomusicology, Columbia University
Introduction to Keynote Speaker, Society for Ethnomusicology conference
· November 21, 2009
Lecture
Mexico City, D.F.
Panel discussant: Sonic Mediation and Studio Technology, Society for Ethnomusicology conference
· November 21, 2009
Lecture
Mexico City, D.F.
Invited Lecture: Ethnomusicology Colloquium, Music Dept, UC-Berkeley
· November 4, 2009
Lecture
Invited Conference: Digital economies and the politics of circulation
· April 1, 2009
Lecture
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and Center for Ethnomusicology, Columbia University
Invited lecture: "Music on Trial". Presented with Catherine Admay (Public Policy) and Ferhat Tunc (Turkish visiting artist), NCUS Dept Music.
· March 1, 2009
Lecture
On Silences and Dancing Around the Truth in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
· November 24, 2008
Lecture
American Anthropological Association, San Francisco
Dancing Around the Truth in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
· October 3, 2008
Lecture
John Hope Franklin Center for International and Interdisciplinary Studies, Duke University
Fellows panel, annual meeting of the ACLS.
· May 9, 2008
Lecture
Pittsburgh
Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
Bass Connections Faculty Team Member - NC Jukebox
· August 2015
- May 2016
Projects & Field Work
United States of America
Service to the Profession
Participant
- Faculty Short Course on Improving Departmental Climate
·
August 2, 2021
- August 5, 2021
Professional Development
Duke Office of Faculty Advancement & Duke Office of Institutional Equity,
Participant
- Faculty Curriculum on Anti-Racism
·
January 11, 2021
- January 14, 2021
Professional Development
Duke Office of Faculty Advancement,
Editorial Board member, Journal of African Cultural Studies
·
2012
Editorial Activities
Tenure reviews
·
December 18, 2011
Editorial Activities
Papers Refereed
Member : International Board of Advisers, African Musicology Online
·
2010
Editorial Activities
Member : MA thesis committee
·
2010
Other
UNC-Chapel Hill
Undergraduate Program External Review Committee, UC-Riverside Dept. Music
·
November 4, 2009
Other
Editorial board member Ethnomusicology Forum
·
2009
Editorial Activities
Editorial board member Journal of Ethnomusicology
·
2009
- 2012
Editorial Activities
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award nominator
·
December 4, 2008
Other
Papers refereed
·
January 5, 2008
Editorial Activities
Editorial Board
·
January 5, 2008
Editorial Activities
Herskovits Book Prize committee
·
January 5, 2008
Editorial Activities
Nominator
·
January 5, 2008
Editorial Activities
Tenure review
·
January 5, 2008
Editorial Activities
Chair : Nahumck Prize committee
·
January 5, 2008
Editorial Activities
Pre-selection fellowship review
·
January 5, 2008
Editorial Activities