Please give a warm welcome to Dr. Bertie Kibreah, our incoming Visiting Assistant Professor in Ethnomusicology!
Dr. Kibreah comes to us from the University of Chicago where he recently completed his PhD in ethnomusicology, studying Muslim devotional practices in Bangladesh. His dissertation is titled, “Banter and Bricolage at the Burial Chamber: Dialectical Devotionalism in Bangladesh.”
Bertie will be teaching a graduate seminar in Music & Devotion and our large undergraduate introductory course World Music & Culture this fall.