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
The anthropology of material aesthetics, mathematics and memory; The nature of innovation and the cognitive work of images, taking insights from ethnographic research in Oceania to the laboratory context of materials science
Western medieval music and its transmission and notation from the origins to the 13th century and the development of the Latin liturgy, with an especial focus on ritual
The art and architecture of Venice and the Veneto; Renaissance architectural history and theory; the relationship between Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean; and music and architecture in the Renaissance