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Dr Ellie Armon Azoulay serves as a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in Durham University's Department of English Studies. Her interdisciplinary work bridges US history, American studies, and Black radical traditions with practical applications in curation and community engagement.
Her research focuses on Cultural History, Decolonial Practices, and Sound Studies, particularly examining Jamaican folklore (1950-1980) and African American musical expressions. She employs Black feminist thought and decolonizing methodologies to analyze knowledge production through community-centered archives and sonic practices.
Current projects include the exhibition Resounding Diasporic Sonic Worlds: Archives, Community and Resistance (Newcastle's Newbridge Project, May-July 2025) and her monthly radio show Diasporic Connections on Slack's Radio. Her research trends emphasize anti-preservationist approaches to archives, intergenerational knowledge transmission, and resistance through sonic practices in Black Atlantic communities.
Scientific recognition includes:
- Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship
As ECR representative for Historians of the Twentieth-Century United States (HOTCUS), she leads collaborative projects connecting academic research with community initiatives through radio programming and public exhibitions. Her forthcoming book Reclaiming the Lore: African American Music Collectors, Refusal and Anti-Preservationist Possibilities explores collecting as pedagogical resistance in Black communities.
She actively develops public-facing work through Newbridge Project's programming committee and Slack's Radio residency, creating platforms for diasporic sonic expression and community-based resistance narratives.
