Modern Moves Team

Ananya Jahanara Kabir

Ananya Jahanara Kabir

Project Director and Principal Investigator

Elina Djebbari

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Madison Moore

Madison Moore

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Leyneuf Tines

Leyneuf Tines

PhD student

Helena Metslang

Research Administrator

Advisory Board

Achille Mbembe

Achille Mbembe

University of Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) and Duke University

Ato Quayson

University of Toronto
Carolyn Cooper

Carolyn Cooper

University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
Catherine Servan-Schreiber

Catherine Servan-Schreiber

CNRS-Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud, Paris

Frederick Moehn

Department of Music, King’s College London
Katherine Schofield

Katherine Schofield

Department of Music, King’s College London
Kwenda Lima

Kwenda Lima

Lisbon
Magna Gopal

Magna Gopal

New York
Manuel Barcía Paz

Manuel Barcía Paz

University of Leeds
Marissa Moorman

Marissa Moorman

Indiana University
Paul Gilroy

Paul Gilroy

King’s College London
Thomas F. DeFrantz

Thomas F. DeFrantz

Duke University
Zoe Norridge

Zoe Norridge

King’s College London

Associated Researchers

Minkyoung ‘MK’ Kim

Minkyoung ‘MK’ Kim

Buffalo and Manchester

Livia Jiménez Sedano

Lisbon/Madrid

Friends of Modern Moves

Adrien Delmas

Adrien Delmas

Scientific Director of the French Institute of South Africa

Iris de Brito and BATUKE!

Director of London’s Studio Afro-Latino