معرفی
Ana María Ochoa Gautier is a Professor in the Newcomb Department of Music, with joint appointments in Communication and Spanish & Portuguese at Tulane University. Her research examines histories of listening, decolonial approaches, sound studies, and creative industries in Latin America/Caribbean contexts.
Ochoa's current projects explore bioacoustics of life/death in colonial histories and relationships between sound, climate change, and coloniality. Her interdisciplinary approach bridges ethnomusicology, cultural anthropology, and literary studies.
Her scholarly output includes the award-winning book Aurality, Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia (Duke University Press, 2014), which received the Alan Merriam Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology. She has also published Músicas locales en tiempos de globalización (2003) and Entre los Deseos y los Derechos (2003).
Honors:
- Distinguished Greenleaf Scholar at Tulane (2016)
- Guggenheim Fellow (2007-2008)
- Advisory board member for Society for Cultural Anthropology
- Advisory board member for Smithsonian Center for Folklife
