Catz Appoints New Henfrey Fellow in Music
St Catherine’s College is delighted to announce the appointment of the Henfrey Fellow in Music, Dr. Nomi Dave.
Nomi is an Associate Professor of Music at the University of Virginia, and the Co-Director of the Sound Justice Lab. She is an interdisciplinary researcher working across music, sound studies, law, and anthropology. Her research explores voice, sound, and listening in legal and extra-legal processes, with two active projects on this subject. The first is a collaborative project on sound, listening, and sexual justice in the Republic of Guinea. This work includes a documentary film, Big Mouth, which she is co-producing with filmmaker Bremen Donovan and journalist Moussa Yéro Bah. Her second project explores audio remote access to trials. The project analyses vocal practices, sound technologies, and ways of listening in and out of court, in relation to the principle of open justice. She is also currently completing a book manuscript, Amplified Feminism, which explores testimony, voice, and listening in the production of evidence – in the courtroom and beyond.
Born in London and raised between the UK and the US, Nomi has worked at the University of Virginia since 2013, where she co-founded and co-directs the Sound Justice Lab. Nomi completed her MPhil in Social Anthropology and DPhil in Music at Oxford. Prior to these studies, Nomi trained as a lawyer and worked for five years for the United Nations, including as a refugee protection officer for the UN Refugee Agency in Guinea.
The Senior Tutor, Professor Andrew Dickinson, adds: “The College is very happy to have elected Carlotta and Nomi as our new Tutorial Fellows in Philosophy and Music. I look forward to welcoming them at the start of the new academic year, when they will take up their posts and formally join the Fellowship. We are grateful to the Laces Trust and to Catz alumnus, Dr. Anthony Henfrey CFA, for their generous support in endowing these Fellowships.”
The Master, Jude Kelly CBE, comments: “Nomi’s work has been fuelled by curiosity and compassion, and provides a wonderful example of artistic and activist practise. Her belief in human potential is entirely in-line with our values at Catz.”