Biography
Ana M. Ochoa Gautier is a professor in the Newcomb Department of Music and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Her work is on histories of listening, on sound studies and climate change, and on the history of aural infrastructures in Latin America and the Caribbean. In the spring of 2025 she was invited to impart the Bloch Lectureships at the Department of Music in the University of California, Berkeley. She has also been a Guggenheim Fellow (2007-2008). She has served on the advisory boards of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, and the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Her book, Aurality, Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia (Duke University Press, 2014) was awarded the Alan Merriam Prize by the Society for Ethnomusicology. She is also the author of Músicas locales en tiempos de globalización (Buenos Aires: Norma 2003), Entre los Deseos y los Derechos: Un Ensayo Crítico sobre Políticas Culturales (Bogotá: Ministerio de cultura, 2003) and numerous articles in Spanish and English. Her forthcoming book La Vida de los Sonidos is currently in print with Editorial Mimesis in Chile.