Nicholas (Niko) Higgins

Niko Higgins

Niko Higgins has been on the faculty at Sarah Lawrence College since 2015. He previously taught at Columbia University and The New School. Niko wants students to learn about the world through sound. He is an ethnomusicologist and saxophonist who is fascinated by the many ways that listening is a form of knowing.  

Dissertation
Confusion in the Karnatic Capital: Fusion in Chennai, India
Columbia Degrees: 
PhD, Ethnomusicology
2013