Nadia Chana

Nadia Chana is an assistant professor of ethnomusicology at UW-Madison’s Mead Witter School of Music. Her recent dissertation — On Listening on Indigenous Land: Method, Context, Crisis — relied on a variety of methods, including multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in northern Alberta and the California Bay Area, to consider how singing and listening become critical tools for building a felt relationship with a more-than-human world.

More generally, Nadia is interested in voice (audible and metaphoric), racialization, embodiment, practice-based ways of knowing, Indigenous-settler relations, Bay Area spirituality, nonhuman agency, and experimental and collaborative ethnography. While Nadia situates her work within music studies, thinkers in critical Indigenous studies and feminist science studies have often been her guiding stars.