Acoustemology and anthropology of sound in rainforest Papua New Guinea, Pastoral Southern Europe and urban West Africa; ethnographic poetics; indigenous representation in global media; documentary photography and cinema
Elected 2024
Investigating the millennium of the illuminated manuscript: making and using images, especially images in books, from late antiquity to the Reformation
The sociology of music education with particular reference to ideology, gender, informal learning, innovative pedagogy, and visually impaired musicians
The anthropology of music, popular music culture and music ethnography, with particular interest in questions of place, migration, heritage, and identity.