Education

2024 - PhD in Ethnomusicology: University of Florida

2017 - MM in Music Education: University of Florida

2012 - BA in Music: New College of Florida

Publications

2025 - Singing Out: The Musical Voice in Audiovisual Media, book chapter (forthcoming)

“The Black Female Voice in 20th Century American Popular Music”

2024 - American Music, peer-reviewed article (forthcoming)

“Futurity and the Dancehall Queer/Quare: Shenseea’s Reclamations of Feminine Power”

2023 - Rising Voices in Ethnomusicology, Roundtable Discussion

“Ethnomusicology Now – Relating in/to the Field”

2023 Notes, the Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association, book review

Queer Voices in Hip-Hop: Cultures, Communities, and Contemporary Performance

2023 - Music Research Forum, peer-reviewed article

“‘Four Women,’ Three Songs: Nina Simone’s Voice (as Object) in Global Hip Hop Sampling”

2023 - Rising Voices in Ethnomusicology, peer-reviewed essay

“Tremor’s Ethos of Sustainability: Theorizing Sonic Eco-Cosmopolitanism”

2022 - Rising Voices in Ethnomusicology, peer-reviewed essay

“Research Realities in Ethnography and the Poetry of Alternative Identities”

2021 - Currents in Musicology, peer-reviewed essay

“Beyond Black & White: Humanizing Black Bodies Through Hip Hop Videos in the BLM Era”

Awards | Fellowships | Grants

2023 - SEC Emerging Scholar Award

2023 - P.E.O. Scholar Award

2023 - Edward A. Bouchet Graduate Honor Society

2023 - UF Chief Diversity Office Microgrant Travel Award

2023 - Graduate Travel Funding, UF College of the Arts and School of Music

2022 - UF International Center Research Abroad for Doctoral Students Grant

2022 - UF Center for European Studies Travel Grant

2022 - SEM Gertrude Robinson Travel Award

2022 - AMS Annual Meeting Travel Grant

2022 - Evelyn L. Wenzel Memorial Scholarship, UF College of Education

2022 - Graduate Travel Award, UF Center for European Studies (CES)

2022 - Graduate Travel Award, UF Office of Research

2022 - Graduate Travel Funding, UF College of the Arts and School of Music

2022 - Rothman Doctoral Fellowship, UF Humanities in the Public Sphere

2022 - Fulbright IIE U.S. Student Fellowship

2021 - Dale A. Olsen Prize (for Best Student Conference Paper), SEMSEC

2021 - Graduate Travel Funding, UF College of the Arts and School of Music

2021 - Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, UF CES

2020 - Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, UF CES

2020 - Graduate Travel Funding, UF College of the Arts and School of Music

2019 - Southern Regional Education Board Fellowship, UF

2019 - Board of Education (BOE) Summer Fellowship, UF Graduate School

2019 - Graduate Travel Funding, UF College of the Arts and School of Music

2019 - Diversity Enhancement Award, UF Graduate Diversity Initiatives

2019 - PhD Fellowship for Ethnomusicology Study, UF College of the Arts

Instructional Experience

2024 - “Experiencing Music” (Undergraduate Music Appreciation Course; online and in-person)

University of Florida | Graduate Teaching Assistant (also in 2019, 2022, 2023)

2024 - “Music: The Ultimate Time Capsule”

University of Florida | Graduate Teaching Assistant/Discussant

2023 - “Music and Social Engagement with the Environment”

University of Florida | Graduate Teaching Assistant/Discussant

2023 - "Popular Music in the USA"

University of Florida | Graduate Teaching Assistant

2022 - “Ethnomusicology in the K-12 Classroom” (Online Graduate Music Education Course)

Shenandoah University | Instructor and Course Designer

2021 - “African American Popular Music in the K-12 Classroom” (Online Graduate Music Education Course)

Shenandoah University | Instructor and Course Designer

2021 - “That's the Joint: Hip-Hop History and Culture” (ongoing thru 2024)

Duquesne University | Instructor and Course Designer

2021 - “The ‘Good Life’” (Undergraduate Humanities Course)

University of Florida | Graduate Teaching Assistant/Discussant

2020 - “Jazz, Hip-Hop, and African Culture”

University of Florida | Graduate Research Assistant/ Course Designer

Invited Talks

2023 - Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting

SEM Student News Annual Meeting Roundtable

2023 - Escola Secundária de Lagoa (Azores)

“People, Places, and Anthems: How Entities Shape Sonic Identity”

2023 - University of the Azores

“Black Sonic Expression as Catalyst for Social Change”

2023 - University of the Azores

“Diversity and Musical Engagement in the Language Classroom”

2023 - UF Center for Humanities in the Public Sphere

“Sonic Institutions and Cultural Knowledge in Ponta Delgada”

2022 - University of the Azores

“Black Feminism in the Work of Nina Simone”

2022 - University of the Azores

“Experiences in American Higher Education” (Fulbright)

2022 - UF Center for Latin American Studies

“Azorean Acoustemologies and Geographies of Identity”

2022 - Society for Christian Music Scholarship Conference

Graduate Career Roundtable and Question Session

2021 - UF Brown Center for Leadership

LeadUF Motivational Speakers

2021 - UF Center for European Studies

“Trying to Tremor: Alternative Identity and Music in São Miguel”

Conferences & Symposia

2024 - International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM; US Branch)

"Introspective Resonances: SZA’s SOS, Modern Narratives of Black (Self)Love, and Collaborative Hybridity”

2023 - Environmental Humanities Conference (online)

“Sonic Eco-Cosmopolitanism: Music Festival Culture, Gender, and Eco-humanism in the Azores”

2023 - American Studies Association Annual Meeting

“On Introspective Resonances: SZA’s SOS and Modern Narratives of Black (Self)Love”

2023 - Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting

“Rupture and Improvisation in ‘Otherwise Possibilities’: EDM in Modern Azorean Cosmopolitanism”

2023 - Triennial International Conference on Timbre in Thessaloniki, Greece

“The Viola da Terra as Metaphor: Post-colonial Sonorities of Azorean Saudade” (Poster)

2023 - University College Dublin Music and Pleasure Before the Law Conference

“Lorde’s Erotic and Transatlantic/Transfem Postcolonial Sonic Expression”

2023 - University of Connecticut (UConn) Graduate Music Conference

“Gendered Legacies of the Viola da Terra: Postcolonial Cultural Politics of Azorean Folclóricos”

2023 - Global Online Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (GOCSEM)

“Azorean Acoustemologies, Part 1: [Hybrid] Fieldwork and Presence”

2023 - CUNY Graduate Students in Music (GSIM) Conference

“Gendered Legacies of the Viola da Terra: Postcolonial Cultural Politics of Azorean Folclóricos”

2023 - Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast and Caribbean (SEMSEC) Annual Meeting

“Gendered Legacies of the Viola da Terra: Postcolonial Cultural Politics of Azorean Folclóricos”

2023 - Women at the Piano 1848-1970 International Conference

“Nina Simone on the Keys as Black Feminist Sound”

2022 - Musicology and Festivals: Latin American and Iberian Perspectives

“Tremor's Sonic Landscapes and the Eco-cosmopolitan City”

2022 - American Musicological Society (AMS-SMT-SEM Joint Annual Meeting)

“Tucson's 'Black Renaissance’ and the Cultural Rupture it Shaped”

2022 - Feminist Theory and Music Conference (at the University of Guelph)

“Simone on the Keys: Living as Black Feminist Sound”

2022 - (NYU) Music and the Moving Image Conference

“Sounding the Revolution: Black Music and the Black Messiah”

2022 - Columbia Music Scholarship Conference

“Sounding Geography: The Black Atlantic Traversing African American Popular Music”

2022 - UF College of Education Research Symposium

“Blending Music Education and Ethnomusicology in K-12 Musical Instruction”

2022 - Society for American Music (SAM) Annual Conference (online)

“Tucson’s “Black Renaissance” and the Cultural Rupture It Shaped"

2022 - Society for Christian Scholarship in Music Annual Conference

“The Sound of Covid-19 Grief: Jamaican Gospel Music as Surrogate to Touch in Pandemic Mourning”

2022 - Diversity & Belonging: Unsung Keyboard Stories (University of Michigan)

“Simone on the Keys: A Protest Dressed in Black Feminine Identity”

2021 - Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting (Virtual)

“The Sound of Covid-19 Grief: Jamaican Gospel Music as Surrogate to Touch in Pandemic Mourning”

2021 - Southern Graduate Music Research Symposium (Virtual/University of Georgia)

“Pandemic Mourning and Jamaican Gospel Music: Sound as Surrogate to Touch”

2021 - Western University Graduate Symposium on Music (Western University; Virtual)

“Humanizing Black Bodies with Hip-Hop Music Videos in the BLM Era”

2021 - Transformations of Musical Creativity in the 21st Century Conference (Virtual)

“Black Musical Nostalgia Verzuz Pandemic Isolation: How Webcast Concert Competitions Connect African American Social Media Users”

2021 - Columbia Music Scholarship Conference

“Verzuz and Black Pandemic Music-Making”

2021 - Midwest Graduate Music Consortium Conference (Virtual/ UMichigan)

“Beyond” Black and White: Humanizing Black Bodies with Hip Hop Videos in the BLM Era”

2021 - Music, Sound, and Media in Times of Crisis International Study Day

“Black Musical Nostalgia Verzuz Pandemic Isolation”

2021 - Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast and Caribbean (SEMSEC) Annual Meeting

“Black Musical Nostalgia Verzuz Pandemic Isolation”

2021 - American Musicological Society Southern Chapter, Annual Meeting

“Jay-Z Samples Nina’s Burden: Cross-Generational Messages of African American Angst”

2020 - Southern Graduate Music Research Symposium

“Jamaican Dancehall Masculinity: Misogynoir, Violence, and National Identity”

2020 - American Musicological Society Southern Chapter Annual Meeting

“Jamaican Dancehall Masculinity: Negotiating Gender and National Identity Through Sound”

Workshops & Professional Development

2023 - Institute on Teaching and Mentoring

Southern Regional Education Board (SREB): Tampa, FL

2023 - Southeastern Conference (SEC) Emerging Scholars Career Preparation Workshop

University of Arkansas: Fayetteville, Arkansas

2023 - International Workshop for Doctoral Students in Ethnomusicology

Center for World Music at the University of Hildesheim: Hildesheim, Germany

2023 - Online Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Training

University of Florida: Gainesville, FL USA

2022 - UF Center for Latin American Studies Soundings Workshop

University of Florida: Gainesville, FL USA

2021 - Graduate School Summer Dissertation Writing Workshop

University of Florida: Gainesville, FL USA

2021 - Ethnic Culture, Teaching and Learning Workshop

Shenandoah University: Winchester, VA USA (online)

2019 - Institute on Teaching and Mentoring

Southern Regional Education Board (SREB): Atlanta, GA

Major Areas of Research & Specializations

• Black (and AA) Sonic Aesthetics and Afro-sonic Geographies

• Popular Music and Culture, Genre Articulations, and Global Manifestations

• Gender & Sexuality in Musical Performance

• Ecomusicology, Sonic Sustainability and Posthuman Sound Worlds

• Caribbean Sounds, Postcoloniality and Music as Resistance

• Community Music Making and Festivals

• Contemporary Lusophone Sounds and Folk Transformations

Public Humanities Engagement

Digital Media Projects • Websites and Media

2023-2024 - Azorean Acoustemologies: Web-based Docuseries

2022-Pres. - AbigailLindo.com: Professional Website

2023-Pres. - Muito Beleza: Podcast Series

2021-Pres. - EthnomwithAbby.carrd.co: Public-facing Research Website

2020-2023 - ufssm.carrd.co: UF Student Society for Musicology website

Blog and Social Media Posts (EthnowithAbby.carrd.co and @ethnowithabby on Instagram)

2023 - Praise for Nina," Educational Multimedia Post

2022 - Defining Music," Educational Multimedia Post

2022 - Acoustemology," Educational Multimedia Post

2022 - What is Ethnomusicology?" Educational Multimedia

2021 - “Trying to Tremor: Alternative Identity and Alternative Music in São Miguel”

2021 - “Fado Then and Now: Gender in the Genre and a Queer Perspective”

2020 - “Four Women, Three Songs: Nina Simone Sampled in Global Hip Hop”

2020 - “Fado’s Romanticized Landscape: Saudade and the Gendered Environment”

Service Experience

Planned/Organized Colloquia

Intersecções Sónicas: Musical Intersections in Interdisciplinary Research

University of the Açores: Ponta Delgada, Azores, PT | 2023

Creative Resilience: Creative Expression & Community Connections During COVID

UF Student Society for Musicology: Gainesville, FL | 2021

Service to the Field

2023-2024 - Project Spectrum, Graduate Student Committee Member

2022-2024 - SEMSEC, Student Board Member

2022-2022 - New Florida Journal of Anthropology, Visiting Reviewer

2022-2022 - UF Journal of Undergraduate Research, Reviewer

2020-2022 - UF Popular Music Ensemble, Vocal Coach

2021-2021 - American Musicological Society, Annual Meeting Session Volunteer

2020-2021 - UF College of the Arts AEI Committee, Graduate Student Representative

2020-2022 - UF Student Society for Musicology, Treasurer

Professional Affiliations

• American Association for University Women (2022 – Present)

• American Musicological Society (2019 – Present)

• American Studies Association (2023 – Present)

• Bouchet Honor Society (2023 – Present)

• Society for Christian Scholarship in Music (2022 – 2023)

• Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM and SEMSEC; 2019 – Present)

• SEM Gertrude Robinson Network (2019 - Present)