teaches Anthropology and Music at Bard College in the Hudson Valley of New York. She is the author of ‘Wild Music: Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine’ (2019), ‘Vopli Vidopliassova’s Tantsi’ (2023), and over a dozen scholarly articles and book chapters on topics, ranging from epistemic imperialism to post-Chornobyl disaster folklore, the musical cultures of Young Pioneers in Soviet Kyiv, and Crimean Tatar music and the politics of Indigenous memory.
House keys recur in the stories of Crimean Tatars and Palestinians displaced from their respective homelands in the 1940s, and Ukrainian citizens fleeing Russian invasion since 2014. Ethnographic research and discourses on art and justice show how objects emblematic of home salvage the history of exiled peoples from oblivion.