what am i doing now?

i am currently in mannheim (germany) working full-time and focusing on the following projects & activities (last updated: 13.05.2025):

• running two bachelor degree programs at the popakademie baden-württemberg
• head of the library at the popakademie baden-württemberg
• member of the journal “popular music history”‘s editorial board

projects

• Baltic Worlds Special Issue on post-Soviet popular music

i have very limited resources for other projects.

current research & teaching projects

• post-soviet popular music in belarus
• VIAs and their legacy
• songs of war in Russia’s war on Ukraine
• what is world music
• introduction to popular music studies
• musics of the world
• popular music history survey
• academic writing
• higher music education and admission exams

current publication projects

• article on belarus and vias – editing stage
• article on music and discrimination in early childhood education – editing stage
• Special issue on sounds in times of war for the journal Baltic Worlds – editing stage
• article on the role of the military on Russia’s war on Ukraine – writing stage
• co-authored book on music and conflict in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia – writing stage
• article on music and belonging in Russia’s war on Ukraine – writing stage
• encyclopedia entry on popular music in belarus – writing 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)