Writing

Publications

2025. “The Met’s Collection of Instruments from Mandé, West Africa, and What it Tells Us about of the Mandé World” in Kenneth Moore Festschrift, edited by Jayson Kerr Dobney. New York: MetPublications.

2023. “Analyzing Intangible Cultural Heritage (“ICH”) of Musical Instrument Collections in Museums.” Global Crises and Music Museums: Representing Music after the Pandemic. Proceedings of the 2021 CIMCIM Conference, 6–8 September, London, Royal College of Music / Horniman Museum and Gardens. Edited by Gabriele Rossi Rognoni, Mimi Waitzman and Esteban Mariño.

2022. Mande Instruments at the Met: Analyzing the Intangible Cultural Heritage of a Musical Instrument Collection in the Museum. PhD Thesis. Columbia University.

2022. “Listening to Kora in New York City: Constructing Africa and Blackness in the U.S.” Ethnomusicology 65 (3)

2022. “Christopher Johnson, Musicians’ Migratory Patterns: The African Drum as Symbol in Early America.” Book Review. Galpin Society Journal LXXV

2019. “On the Organology of the Kora.” American Musical Instrument Society Online.

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