Nadrah Mohammed
Nadrah Mohammed
As a feminist literary scholar, her research explores mid-20th century Francophone representations of friendship between women. Her dissertation considers how the dynamics of race, class and sexual orientation intersect with gendered expectations of virtue to shape narrative approaches to women’s friendship. She is the coordinator of the Insurgent Domesticities working group and the rapporteur to the Beyond France University Seminar. Her work on postcolonial gardens in women’s Francophone writing has appeared in L’esprit créateur.
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
Erin V. Moore
Post Doctoral Research Scientist, Heilbrunn Department of Population & Family Health at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health
Erin V. Moore is a postdoctoral research scientist in the Heilbrunn Department of Population & Family Health at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. A, sociocultural and medical anthropologist, Moore’s research focuses on the role of gender and sexuality in international development and global health at multiple scales – from global intervention campaigns to national policy and program implementation to the lives of girls and women.
Erin V. Moore
Post Doctoral Research Scientist, Heilbrunn Department of Population & Family Health at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health
Erin V. Moore is a postdoctoral research scientist in the Heilbrunn Department of Population & Family Health at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. A, sociocultural and medical anthropologist, Moore’s research focuses on the role of gender and sexuality in international development and global health at multiple scales – from global intervention campaigns to national policy and program implementation to the lives of girls and women. Her multi-sited research has taken her from United Nations to NGO offices around the world to the slums of Kampala, Uganda’s capital city, where she has been working intensively with a cohort of young women and their families since 2012. At Mailman, Moore joins an interdisciplinary team of researchers investigating how social transitions to adulthood shape HIV/AIDS risk in Rakai, a rural district in Uganda. Moore’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the Society for Psychological Anthropology, the Society for Research on Adolescence, the Buffett Institute for Global Studies at Northwestern, and the American Association for University Women, among others. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 2016.
Working Group Affiliation
Sean Murray
Musicology, CUNY Graduate Center
Sean Murray is a doctoral student in musicology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has presented numerous conference papers on race and gender in American music, and published on the relationship between the nineteenth century piano industry and the African ivory and slave trades. His dissertation examines the intersection of race and disability in American music. Sean was the recipient of a graduate student fellowship at the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution.
Sean Murray
Musicology, CUNY Graduate Center
Sean Murray is a doctoral student in musicology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has presented numerous conference papers on race and gender in American music, and published on the relationship between the nineteenth century piano industry and the African ivory and slave trades. His dissertation examines the intersection of race and disability in American music. Sean was the recipient of a graduate student fellowship at the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution.
