what am i doing now?
i am currently in mannheim (germany) working full-time and focusing on the following projects & activities (last updated: 16.03.2024):
- running two bachelor degree programs at the popakademie baden-württemberg
- head of the library at the popakademie baden-württemberg
projects
- Baltic Worlds Special Issue on post-Soviet popular music
i have very limited resources for other projects.
(pic: alexander münch)
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
- 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)