Emily Abrams Ansari
Emily Abrams Ansari
@emilyabramsansari.bsky.social
Musicologist and Asst. Dean @ Western University 🇨🇦 scholar of Cold War in 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇸🇻 author of “The Sound of a Superpower” 🇺🇸 family, travel, cooking, gardening, and interior design evenings + weekends
Know a student who had their offer from a top US PhD program rescinded - or a student from a top US school who is looking globally for their PhD?
Check out this fantastic new program at Western University, where I work. Amazing funding packages available.

news.westernu.ca/2025/07/phd-...
Western expands PhD and postdoc funding - Western News
Western is boosting funding for postdoctoral fellows and PhD candidates from the U.S. and other countries with expanded and new award programs.
news.westernu.ca
July 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Spanish readers: here’s a short, accessible piece about mine and Giada Ferrucci’s research in El Salvador: revistaelementos.net/palestra/can...
Cantando la guerra civil salvadoreña - Revista Elementos
Con el río Lempa fluyendo pacíficamente a sus espaldas, dos mujeres, acompañadas por un hombre tocando guitarra, cantan una canción de conmemoración, «El 17 de Marzo». Esta canción fue escrita por un ...
revistaelementos.net
May 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Reposted by Emily Abrams Ansari
Are academic conferences in the US a thing of the past?
March 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I wrote a piece about all those patriotic anti-Trump songs that us Canadians keep seeing on our socials. theconversation.com/elbows-up-ca...
Elbows up, Canada: Musical responses to Trump’s Canada threats
Pro-Canada songs spreading across social media, including some by Canadian celebrities, reveal a range of reactions to Donald Trump’s tariffs and annexation threats.
theconversation.com
March 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
It seems the Ontario government has saved up all their spending announcements (new schools, new homelessness hubs) to announce the day before they call for an election. How about some money for the most under-funded universities in Canada, Mr. Ford, while you're at it?
January 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Apologies to JSAM subscribers who just received 3 issues at once. It turns out CUP only just now received our 2023 members list so only just shipped these issues. 17/4 is also now out online-my last issue as EIC. Handing the reins to Jacky Avila. It’s been fun, JSAM!
November 18, 2023 at 1:15 AM
Reposted by Emily Abrams Ansari
to work in the humanities in a university now is to live a constant dissonance between:

-the quotidian JOY, excitement, new ideas of researchers and students

-but in context of absolute abject cultural vandalism from 40+ years of rightwing ideological assaults on learning+corporate capture of HE
October 13, 2023 at 9:37 AM