Research
Areas of research specialization:
Indigenous-led research methodologies and theories, including writing and editorial praxes;
Indigeneity-centered approaches to performance, improvisation, media, and sensory studies;
Arts and activism in North Pacific and Circumpolar Arctic communities specifically, and between Indigenous, Black, and Peoples of Color communities more broadly;
Critical Indigenous Studies, and the intellectual and institutional histories of American Indian, Alaska Native, Native American, and Indigenous Studies.
Book
Sound Relations: Native Ways of Doing Music History in Alaska. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021.
Cover Art: “Blending” (2021) by Dustin Newman (Unangax̂/Deg Hit’an)
Journal Articles
“Asking the Indigeneity Question of American Music Studies,” co-authored with Gabriel Solis. Journal of the Society for American Music 13, no. 4, Special Issue: Music, Indigeneity, and Colonialism in the Americas (2019): 401–10.
“A Tribalography of Alaska Native Presence in Academia.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 37, no. 3, Special Issue: Reducing Barriers to Native American Student Success in Higher Education (2013): 3–27.
“Pamyua’s Akutaq: Traditions of Modern Inuit Modalities in Alaska.” MUSICultures 39, no. 1, Special Issue: Indigenous Modernities (2012): 7–41.
Book Chapters
“Inuit Sound Worlding and Audioreelism in Flying Wild Alaska.” In Music and Modernity among First Peoples of North America, edited by Victoria Lindsay Levine and Dylan Robinson, 174–97. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2019.
*2020 Awardee “Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize,” Society for Ethnomusicology
*2020 Awardee “Ruth A. Solie Award for Outstanding Collection of Essays,” American Musicological Society
“Audiovisualizing Iñupiaq Men and Masculinities On the Ice.” In Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, edited by Joanne Barker, 127–68. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017.
“Voices from the Jazz Wilderness: Locating Pacific Northwest Jazz Choir Culture.” In Jazz/Not Jazz: The Music and Its Boundaries, edited by David Ake, Charles Hiroshi Garrett, and Daniel Goldmark, 219–36. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2012.
Review Essays
“Indigenous Pop: Native American Music from Jazz to Hip Hop by Jeff Berglund, Jan Johnson, and Kimberli A Lee, Eds.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 40, no. 3 (2016): 144–48.
“Aboriginal Music in Contemporary Canada: Echoes and Exchanges by A. Hoefnagels and B. Diamond, Eds.” Yearbook for Traditional Music 46, no. W (2014): 1–3.