Visiting Scholars

Georgina Born, OBE FBA is a professor of music and anthropology at the University of Oxford. Earlier, she worked as a musician with avant-garde rock, jazz and improvising groups. Her work combines ethnographic and theoretical writings on music, sound, television and digital media. Her books are Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde, Western Music and Its Other: Difference, Representation, and Appropriation in Music, Uncertain Vision: Birt, Dyke and the Reinvention of the BBC, Music, Sound and Space, Interdisciplinarity and Improvisation and Social Aesthetics. Two books are forthcoming: Music and Digital Media: A Planetary Anthropology and Music and Genre: New Directions. Born directed the European Research Council funded research program “Music, Digitization, Mediation: Towards Interdisciplinary Music Studies.” She has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, Irvine, and McGill, Hong Kong, Oslo and Aarhus universities.

Carlos Fausto is a professor of anthropology at the National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and global scholar at Princeton. He served as a visiting scholar at the universities of Chicago, Stanford and Cambridge, as well as at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and the École Pratique des Hautes Études, both in France. He has been conducting fieldwork among indigenous peoples in Amazonia since 1988, most notably with the Tupi-speaking Parakanã and the Karib-speaking Kuikuro. His most recent books are Warfare and Shamanism in Amazonia, Art Effects: Image, Agency and Ritual in Amazonia, and the co-edited volume Ownership and Nurture: Studies in Native Amazonian Property Relations. He is also a photographer and a documentary filmmaker, having co-directed the award-winning feature film “The Hyperwomen.”