Author Biographies
- Author Biographies
Pamela Jordan is a registered architect (LEED AP) who uses acoustic methodologies to analyze built environments, such as ancient sanctuaries, places of worship, military installations, infrastructural ruins, and cultural landscapes. Her work has been presented in peer-reviewed journals, international conferences, and art installations. Her research has been supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (DE), the HEAD Genuit Foundation (DE), the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NL), and the Society of Architectural Historians (US). Jordan holds master's degrees in both architecture and historic preservation from the University of Pennsylvania and is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Amsterdam's Centre for Ancient Studies and Archaeology.
Florence Feiereisen is associate professor of German at Middlebury College. She has published books and articles in the fields of German contemporary literature as well as in acoustic ecology / sound studies, among them Der Text als Soundtrack—der Autor als DJ: Postmoderne und postkoloniale Samples bei Thomas Meinecke (Königshausen & Neumann, 2011) and Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 2012; coedited with Alexandra Hill). Lately, Dr. Feiereisen has been very interested in digital tools to explore the intersection of urban history, architecture, and sound.
Erin Sassin received her PhD in the history of art and architecture from Brown University in 2012 and was awarded tenure at Middlebury College in 2020. At Middlebury she teaches courses on the history of art, architecture, and urbanism, with a particular focus on class and gender. Her book, titled Single People and Mass Housing in Germany (1850–1930): (No) Home Away from Home (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) was awarded a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
Miriam A. Kolar's cultural acoustics research employs acoustical and auditory science in a transdisciplinary approach to anthropological archaeology and the study of humanenvironmental interrelationships. Since 2008, she has led archaeoacoustics and music archaeology investigations at the UNESCO World Heritage Centre archaeological site Chavín de Huántar, Perú. Kolar conducted the first acoustical survey at the Inca administrative center, Huánuco Pampa, in 2015. Co-organizer of the NEH-granted project "Digital Preservation and Access to Aural Heritage via a Scalable, Extensible Method," Kolar was recently a Weatherhead Fellow at the School for Advanced Research and previously the Mellon Five College Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities.
Annie Goh, PhD, is an artist and researcher working primarily with sound, space, electronic media and generative processes within their social and cultural contexts. She is currently a lecturer in XD pathway in BA fine art at Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London, and an associate lecturer in sound arts at London College of Communication. Her PhD, a critical investigation of knowledge production in archaeoacoustics, funded by CHASE/AHRC, was awarded by Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2019. She was a Stuart Hall Foundation PhD Fellow.
Elías Gálvez-Arango served as a pututu player and designed the performance synchronization (clapping) experiment during the group's fieldwork at Chavín. He currently works as a geospatial analyst and cartographer associated with the Stanford Program on Water, Health & Development while finishing his undergraduate studies. His thesis centers on the creation of a bilingual atlas that introduces readers to the cities of Latin America via engaging cartography and accessible analysis. His research interests include urban and regional geography, sense of place, and infrastructure.
Brian Morris majored in mathematics at Stanford University, with interests in economics and political redistricting. In addition to participating in archaeoacoustics fieldwork, they contributed to the spatial evaluation of seashell excavations at the site as a participant of the Stanford Archaeology Center's 2018 fieldschool in Chavín de Huántar.
Alexa Romano recently graduated from Stanford University with an MA in anthropology following her BA in anthropology with minors in ethics in society and photography. Her undergraduate research discussed the production of "heritage" in both the central Andean town and the UNESCO archeological site of Chavín de Huantar, Perú. Examining affective and bureaucratic understandings of heritage, it shifted focus from what is produced via excavation/recovery to what is produced via present-day social interactions among archeologists, townspeople, and transients. Her master's research investigated the coffee...
