Research Areas
My research is situated at the intersections of Sound Studies, Spatial Sociology, Musicology, and Cultural Memory Studies. It centers on how music, sound and listening structure space and shape processes of memory.
Research Area 1: Sound, Listening, and Spatial Sociology
In one of my core research areas, I approach sound from a spatial-sociological perspective. I examine how the auditory—both as a phenomenon and as a set of practices, including listening and sound production—contributes to the construction of space. My work combines theoretical approaches (e.g. Martina Löw) with close listening and ethnographic methods to analyse how sonic environments are structured, experienced, and negotiated in specific contexts, such as museums and memorial sites.
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Research Area 2: Memory in Popular Music
In the second core research areas I examine memory in popular music, with a particular focus on hip-hop. I explore how musical, sonic, and narrative practices engage with histories of violence, trauma, and collective remembrance, and how they contribute to shaping and transforming memory. My doctoral research, Rapping the Shoah, investigates how memories of the Holocaust and National Socialism are articulated in hip-hop from Jewish perspectives. My work combines musicological analysis with approaches from memory studies to understand how popular music functions as a space in which memory is experienced, negotiated, and reconfigured.