Maria Fantinato
PhD Candidate, Anthropology and Ethnomusicology, Columbia University
Maria Fantinato received her MA in Communication and Culture from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, with a thesis on the relationship between music, communication and aesthetics among local experimental musicians. As a PhD candidate at Columbia University she works at the intersection of sound studies, anthropology of the senses, Brazilian ethnomusicology and queer theories of the sensorial, focusing on the sonic as formative of the political.
Maria Fantinato
PhD Candidate in Anthropology and Ethnomusicology, Columbia University
Maria Fantinato received her MA in Communication and Culture from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, with a thesis on the relationship between music, communication and aesthetics among local experimental musicians. As a PhD candidate at Columbia University she works at the intersection of sound studies, anthropology of the senses, Brazilian ethnomusicology and queer theories of the sensorial, focusing on the sonic as formative of the political. In her work, listening is a conceptual-political entry point to understand violent and transforming processes that take place in Amazonian territories in the name of “development”.
Working Group Affiliation
Environmental Justice, Belief Systems, and Aesthetic Experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean, Graduate Assistant
Andrés García Molina
PhD Candidate in Ethnomusicology, Columbia University
Andrés García Molina is a PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology at Columbia University, researching street-vendor songs in Cuba and their relationship to labor, precarity, and food justice. He obtained an MA in Latin American Studies from UC Berkeley, researching shamanic rituals in the Colombian Amazon. He is part of the editorial board of Current Musicology and a contributing editor for Cultural Anthropology. His research has been funded by the Social Science Research Council and the Mellon Foundation.
Andrés García Molina
PhD Candidate in Ethnomusicology, Columbia University
Andrés García Molina is a PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology at Columbia University, researching street-vendor songs in Cuba and their relationship to labor, precarity, and food justice. He obtained an MA in Latin American Studies from UC Berkeley, researching shamanic rituals in the Colombian Amazon. He is part of the editorial board of Current Musicology and a contributing editor for Cultural Anthropology. His research has been funded by the Social Science Research Council and the Mellon Foundation.
Working Group Affiliation
Environmental Justice, Belief Systems, and Aesthetic Experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean