Teaching

I teach sound and music ethnography at the undergraduate and postgraduate level. My current teaching includes lectures on Music and Authoritarianism and Music and Pleasure, and a Master’s seminar on The Social and Cultural Study of Music.

About me

I was born in London to a Kenyan Indian mother and Tanzanian Indian father. I spent time in Kenya as a child and went on to pursue French and African Studies at the University of Florida. After training as a lawyer, I worked for the UN Refugee Agency in the Republic of Guinea. I completed a MPhil in Social Anthropology and a DPhil in Music at Oxford, and taught for 12 years at the University of Virginia, where I co-founded the Sound Justice Lab.

Research

My research explores sound and the law, with particular interests in voice, listening, audiovisual technologies, violence, and gender. I am currently completing a book, Amplified Feminism, on formal and informal testimony in sexual justice cases in Guinea. Alongside this book, I am producing a feature-length documentary film, Big Mouth, with the director Bremen Donovan and journalist, Moussa Yéro Bah. I am also working on a project on open justice and audio remote access to trials.