what am i doing now?

i am currently in mannheim (germany) working full-time and focusing on the following projects & activities (last updated: 15.05.2022):

• running two bachelor degree programs at the popakademie baden-württemberg
• head of the library at the popakademie baden-württemberg
• editorial board chair of the aec project “stakeholder assembly on power relations in higher music education (PRIhME)“
• external member of the royal irish academy of music’s working group 1 “equality, diversity, identity, inclusiveness”

projects
i have very limited resources for other projects.

current research & teaching projects

• music and extremism
• post-soviet popular music in belarus
• VIAs and their legacy
• songs of war in ukraine
• what is world music
• history of film music
• introduction to popular music studies
• musics of the world
• popular music history survey
• academic writing

current publication projects

• article on songs of war – writing stage
• encyclopedia entry on popular music in belarus – writing stage
• article on power relations within admission exams – review stage
• article on shifts in post-Soviet Russian popular music – editing stage
• article on power relations within higher music education – editing stage

personal projects

• trumpet
• teaching myself 5-string banjo
• photography (and some dark room dabbling)
• fishing
• cooking

(page inspired by sivers.org/nowff and chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/the-now-page-movement/61412)