Field work:

• Currently researching masculinity and movement in competitive air guitar performance, Germany and Finland.
• Ongoing research into gender and transnationalism in Dominican merengue tipico performance, New York City and Dominican Republic
• Conducted fieldwork on dance and movement in the carnival of Santiago, Dominican Republic, with support from a Nahumck Fellowship (Society for Ethnomusicology) in 2009 (work on this topic began in 2005). Project title: Meaningful Movements: Gender, Politics, and Collective Memory in Dominican Carnival

Some recent talks given on work in progress:

• Plenary session speaker at Música, Identidad, y Cultura en el Caribe (MIC) IV, Santiago, Dominican Republic. “¿Fue el merengue típico el primer jazz dominicano? Un análisis de técnicas compartidas.” April 16, 2011
• Invited speaker for Princeton University’s Non-Western music colloquia series. “Performing the tiguera: Female accordionists in Dominican merengue típico,” April 4, 2011
• Conference paper. “Breaking borders/ quebrando fronteras: Rethinking quebradita dancing,” Youth, Identities, and Transnational Flows (Latino Studies conference), Cornell University, March 4-5, 2011
• Conference paper. “Putting some air on their chests: Movement and masculinity in competitive air guitar.” Society for Ethnomusicology, Los Angeles, November, 2010.
• Conference paper. “Negotiating knowledge, producing place: Movement, masks, and mismatch in Dominican carnival research.” American Folklore Society, Nashville, Oct. 14-16, 2010
• Conference paper. “Performing the Rock Music ImaginAiry: Embodying musical knowledge and masculinity in air guitar competition.” British Forum for Ethnomusicology, Oxford, April 8-11