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education

• Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
• Ph.D., African and African American Studies, expected 2012.
• Discipline: social anthropology with a secondary field in ethnomusicology.
• Dissertation: "Sounding Creole: The Politics of Cape Verdean Language, Music, and Diaspora."
• Committee: co-chair Kay Kaufman Shelemay, co-chair Steven C. Caton, and Michel DeGraff (MIT).

• Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
• A.M., Social Anthropology, November 2007.

• Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
A.B., Social Anthropology, magna cum laude, June 2003.

selected awards and fellowships

• Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellowship, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute (2011-2012)
• GSAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2010-2011)
• Sheldon Traveling Fellowship for dissertation fieldwork (2009-2010)
• Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates (2008)
• Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanities (2005-2006)

selected presentations

I have presented papers and participated in panel discussions at many academic and other conferences and events, including at the Society for Ethnomusicology, the Society for Caribbean Linguistics, and the Harvard African Language Program's "African Languages in the Disciplines."

selected publications

My writing, editing, and translation work has been published in Bittersweet Notes: Chocolate, Culture, and the Politics of Food, The Root, Transition Magazine, Sodade Magazine, and The Savannah Review (forthcoming).

teaching

I have taught extensively at the college level, primarily at Harvard University's Department of African and African American Studies; Department of Music; Committee on Degrees in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Program in General Education; and Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning.

professional experience and social engagement

I have experience in ethnographic, archival, and digital humanities research from over a decade of fieldwork in West Africa (Cape Verde, Senegal), the United States (New England area and several urban areas), and Europe (Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal). Throughout this time, I have worked on social engagement projects such as educational event development, community outreach, translation, and interpreting. In addition, I have held a number of research, service, and administrative positions in higher education.

language skills

• Fluency: English, Cape Verdean Creole.
• High proficiency: Portuguese.
• Intermediate proficiency: Hindi-Urdu, Swahili, French, Spanish.
• Basic proficiency: classical Tibetan, Sanskrit.

musical background

I have an extensive musical background as an oboist, pianist, percussionist (mallets), cellist, and dancer.