Roles
I am a PhD candidate in historical musicology under the supervision of Professor Marina Frolova-Walker and Professor Keith Howard (Emeritus Professor of Music, SOAS). My research examines the development and anticolonial politics of North Korean revolutionary opera, and the conceptual legacy of opera as a technology of rule in postcolonial societies.
I hold a MA in Global History from Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, and a BMus in Voice and a BA (Honours) in History from the University of Western Australia. From 2015 to 2016 I was a Global Humanities Junior Fellow for the thematic network Principles of Cultural Dynamics at l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and was a visiting student at Kim Hyong Jik University of Education in Pyongyang in 2017. In 2018 and 2019 I attended the Korean Language Institute at Seoul National University to improve my Korean.
My studies at Cambridge are supported by a William Barclay Squire Graduate Studentship and a Cambridge International Scholarship. From January 2023 I will be undertaking a three month research stay at Yale University as a Clare-Yale Fellow.
In addition to my research commitments at Cambridge, I am the PhD representative for Music, co-convener of ‘Socialist Realism and Music, Globally’, a research network run between the University of Cambridge and Universität Leipzig, co-convener of the monthly ‘Music and Politics’ reading group, and president and co-founder of the newly re-established University of Cambridge Samulnori Society with Nami Morris.
