Postdoctoral Fellows
This page displays a database view of current post-doctoral fellows affiliated with the Department of Music at Columbia University. To go directly to an individual fellow's listing, click on a name below or from the list in the right sidebar.
Ciucci, Alessandra
Alessandra Ciucci is in her first year as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Music at Columbia University. She holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from the CUNY Graduate Center. Her dissertation "Poems of Honor, Voices of Shame: The 'Aita and the Moroccan Shikhat," analyzes the relationship between a class of Moroccan professional female singer-dancers and a genre of sung poetry which forms the core of their repertory, combines ethnography, performance studies and a music-poetic analysis of the texts. She has received fellowships from the Fullbright, the American Institute for Maghrib Studies, and the Jewish Foundation for the Education of Women. Her research interests include: Morocco, North Africa, Arabic music, Arab popular music, music of the Mediterranean, sung poetry, music and gender, dance, and performance studies.
Submitted by alessandra_ciucci on July 21, 2008 - 9:27pm.
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Einbond, Aaron
Aaron Einbond came to Columbia as a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Music in 2009. He holds the PhD in Music (Composition) from the University of California, Berkeley.
Submitted by aeinbond on September 26, 2009 - 1:51pm.
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Martin, Nathan
Nathan Martin came to Columbia in 2009 as a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Music, after earning his PhD in Musicology from McGill University. His dissertation, "Rameau and Rousseau: Harmony and History in the Age of Reason," treats the reception of Rameau's theoretical writings in Rousseau's Encyclopédie articles and Dictionnaire de musique. His articles and reviews have appeared in Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, the Tijdschrift voor Muziektheorie, and Intersections. His primary research interests are in the history of music theory.
Submitted by nmartin on September 26, 2009 - 9:39am.
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Novak, David E.
David Novak is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the Heyman Center, Columbia University (B.A., East Asian Studies, 1992. Oberlin College; M.A., Ethnomusicology, 1999. Wesleyan University; Ph.D. Columbia University 2006). His work deals with the global circulation of popular music, media technologies and social practices of listening. His forthcoming book, Japanoise: The Cultural Feedback of Experimental Music, a multi-sited ethnography on the circulation of Noise between North America and Japan, will be published by Duke University Press. His other interests include history of sound recording, music as intellectual property, and the uses of sound in public space. Recent publications include “2.5 by 6 Metres of Space: Japanese Music Coffeehouses and Experimental Practices of Listening.” Popular Music 27(1):15-34, and “Onkyo/Oto, Chinmoku/Ma, to Impuro no Sendaitekina Disukuuru" [“Sound, Silence, and the Global Discourses of Improvisation”], in the Japanese-language volume The New Jazz Studies, eds. T. Miyawaki and M. Molasky, Tokyo: Kirara Shobou.
Submitted by david_novak on July 22, 2008 - 8:23am.
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Sakakibara, Chie
Chie Sakakibara received her Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Oklahoma (OU) in 2007. She is a cultural geographer interested in global indigenous studies and human-animal interactions. Prior to her Ph.D., she has completed her degrees in Native American Studies (B.A., 2000) and Art History (M.A., 2002) at OU. Her current research focuses on global warming and its influence on traditional human relationships with the bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) in the Alaskan Arctic. During her fieldwork among the Iñupiaq people in Barrow and Point Hope, Alaska (2004-7), she was adopted by several whaling families and experienced their subsistence activities including whaling. Chie’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Geography and Regional Science Program and by the Arctic Social Sciences Program. She also works closely with institutions such as the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium (BASC), the North Slope Borough Department of Wildlife Management, the Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University, and the Arctic Studies Center at Smithsonian Institution. In the past, Chie has given several invited lectures at various institutions: the Center for Ethnomusicology at CU, Tokyo University of Science (Japan), Nagoya University (Japan), Nagoya City University (Japan), the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium and Ilisa?vik College (Barrow, Alaska). In addition to her research, she collaborates with the Center for Ethnomusicology for their Iñupiaq music heritage repatriation project led by Prof. Aaron A. Fox. Chie has served on the faculty in the Native American Studies Program at OU, and in the fall 2008 she will teach Native Peoples of North America in the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University. Her article titled “Drowning Home: Iñupiaq Storytelling and Climate Change in Point Hope, Alaska” (2008) appears in The Geographical Review (Volume 98, Number 4).
Submitted by chie_sakakibara on July 21, 2008 - 9:29pm.
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