Audrey Amsellem is the Associate Research Scholar at SOF/Heyman, where she conducts research in public humanities and contributes to building a public humanities program of undergraduate and graduate study. She coordinates the Rikers Education Program — including college classes and workshops — and the Public Humanities Graduate Fellowship, and works with the JIE Scholars Program. She is also teaching Music Humanities on Rikers Island. She earned her Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from Columbia in 2022. Her research lies at the intersection of music, law, and science and technology studies. She is the recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant in Science and Technology Studies, the 2021 Surveillance Studies Network Early Career Researcher Award, and the 2024 Just Humanities Grant, and is a member of the Open Voice Network at the Linux Foundation. Her work has been published in interdisciplinary journals such as Surveillance & Society, Law Text Culture, and Sound Studies. Her forthcoming monograph, US Law and the Sounds of Dispossession: From Copyright Law to the True Threat Doctrine, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan later this year.

Students and faculty interested in learning more about Public Humanities programming at SOF/Heyman can reach out to her at aa3348@columbia.edu.