Jessie Rubin is an ethnomusicology PhD candidate at Columbia University. She recently completed a year of multi-sited fieldwork for her dissertation research, which explores how, through music, the North of Ireland’s republican community has not only carried on a tradition of Palestine solidarity, but in doing so has launched a discussion of how Irish republicanism might be (re)fashioned on the global stage. Jessie's Master's thesis, “Places We Could Find Ourselves In”: Affective Networks of Queer MENA Party Life in NYC" examines New York-based reformulations of MENA (Middle East/North African) cultural practices within an electronic dance party network.
