About me
Dr Christian Poske is an ethnomusicologist whose research concerns the cultures and performing arts of east and northeast India and Bangladesh, which he investigates through the lenses of music and conflict, ecomusicology, oral history, and community engagement with archival recordings. After pursuing his BA and MA in Instrumental Music at Rabindra Bharati University in Kolkata, he completed his PhD in Music at SOAS University of London and the British Library, where he worked as an Audio Cataloguer and Bengali Cataloguer. Subsequently, he conducted three postdoctoral research projects in India and the UK. Central aspects of his research are decolonial and applied approaches involving grassroots engagement with cultural heritage communities through regional documentation and archiving initiatives, research training, and outreach and engagement events. He currently is the principal investigator of a three-year project on music and conflict in the Nagaland region hosted by the Music and Minorities Research Center in Vienna.