what am i doing now?

i am currently in mannheim (germany) working full-time and focusing on the following projects & activities (last updated: 27.09.2020):

• running two bachelor degree programs at the popakademie baden-württemberg
• head of the library at the popakademie baden-württemberg
• teaching a musics of the world-course at the state university of music and the performing arts stuttgart
• chair of the aec working group “diversity, identity, inclusiveness“
• 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

• post-soviet popular music in belarus
• what is world music
• history of film music
• introduction to popular music studies
• musics of the world
• popular music history survey
• fieldwork methodology

current publication projects

• article on power relations within higher music education – writing stage
• article on digitalisation and globalisation – editing stage
• article on shifts in post-Soviet Russian popular music – editing stage
• co-authored aec-handbook on diversity in higher music education – editing stage
• encyclopedia entry on the Soviet rock group “Alisa” – editing stage
• an edited book project on popular music in Germany – in press

personal projects

• parenting
• 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)