Maria Fantinato G. Siqueira
Visiting Professor of Music
Maria Fantinato G. Siqueira is Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at 猫咪社区. They are an interdisciplinary scholar of sound and music, focusing on how struggles for land and territory permeate everyday life and shape modes of listening, sounding, and storytelling in the Brazilian Amazon. As a scholar and educator, Maria is interested in the multiple ways people engage with their environments and how knowledge travels from one listening, sounding, and singing experience to another. Maria holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Columbia University, as well as an M.A. in Communication and Culture from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Before coming to 猫咪社区, she was a Postdoctoral Associate in Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Her work has been published in The World of Music journal, the Brazilian Urban Anthropology journal Ponto Urbe, and others. In the 2024-2025 academic year, they will be teaching classes on sound, music, and climate change; the cultural study of music; sensorial imaginaries of the Amazon; musical ethnography; and feminist approaches to popular music.