Andrea Shaheen Espinosa

Andrea Shaheen Espinosa is an associate professor in the Arizona State University School for Social Transformation and the Herberger School of Music, Dance, and Theater. Her current research explores the ways that migration, nostalgia, and trauma impact notions of identity and musicking practices within Syrian diasporic communities in the U.S. and Latin America. Her research has been supported by Medici, the Dodson Foundation, and Fulbright, and her recent work has been published in Yearbook for Traditional Music, The Double Reed, and Cahiers d’ethnomusicologie. Additionally, Shaheen Espinosa is an active performer of the oboe, English horn, nay, and zurna, and she is the founder and director of ASU’s Middle East music ensemble, Layali Al-Sham.