Singing Across Divides

Anna Stirr is Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She is an ethnomusicologist specializing in music of the Himalayan region. She received her PhD in Ethnomusicology from Columbia University, and has been part of music, anthropology, and Asian Studies departments at Oxford University and Leiden University. She is a performer as well as a scholar of lok dohori, and sings and plays several instruments. She is the 2016 recipient of the Ali Miyan Prize in Folklore for her research and performance of Nepali folk music.