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Faculty Fellow

Anna Schultz

Professor of Music and the Humanities; Department Chair University of Chicago

Biography

The core issue animating Anna Schultz's research in India and beyond is music’s power to activate profound religious experiences that in turn shape other identities. She thus explores nationalism in Western Indian Hindu temple performance, gendered translation in Indian Jewish song, diasporic longing in Indo-Caribbean American Hinduism, and rural-urban collisions in the devotional songs of an Indian classical singer. More recently, she has begun turning my attention toward issues of race and migration in American popular musics.

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Featured Project

Sonic Borderlands of South Asia

2025 – 2027

Projects

Interwoven: Sonic and Visual Histories of the Indian Ocean World

Interwoven: Sonic and Visual Histories of the Indian Ocean World

This project explored the historical significance of South Asian artistic practices and the complex ways they helped shape local and transregional cultures.
Interwoven lays the foundations of a new paradigm for understanding movement, practice, materiality, and embodiment as constituting factors of social relations across long temporal arcs and geographic itineraries unbounded by national borders in the Indian Ocean region. The project builds upon and ...