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Anahí Viladrich
Back to all Anahí Viladrich is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Queens College and the Graduate Center School of Public Health and Health Policy of the City University of New York (CUNY). Originally from Argentina, Viladrich is a feminist and immigrant advocate. She is the author of more than sixty peer-reviewed publications, and two […]
Kristin Wendland
Back to all Kristin Wendland is the NEH Project Director of the Tango in Humanities Conference and Professor of Teaching in the Department of Music at Emory University. With her tango research partner Kacey Link, she has co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Tango and co-authored and published Tracing Tangueros: Argentine Tango Instrumental Music (2016), and […]
Ignacio Varchausky
Back to all Photo credit: Mario Efron Ignacio Varchausky is a musician, producer, researcher, and educator who has been working in tango for over twenty-five years. He is the creator and artistic director of the Orquesta Escuela de Tango Emilio Balcarce; the founder of Orquesta El Arranque and the nonprofit organization TangoVia; and the author of […]
Rebecca Simpson-Litke
Back to all Rebecca Simpson-Litke is Associate Professor of Music Theory in the Desautels Faculty of Music at the University of Manitoba. Her research explores rhythmic interactions between music and dance, focusing on the Latin social dances that she has taught and performed in her spare time for the past twenty years. Her salsa research […]
Sonia Possetti
Back to all Sonia Possetti is a pianist, composer, arranger, producer and educator from Argentina, whose music with strong tango roots includes elements of contemporary music and jazz. She leads her own ensemble, which has received several awards in Argentina and abroad. She has composed and arranged music for different chamber ensembles and symphonic Orchestras around […]
Bárbara Varassi Pega
Back to all Bárbara Varassi Pega is a faculty member at Fontys University of Fine and Performing Arts, Tilburg, and Codarts University of the Arts, Rotterdam, where she also coordinates the Tango Department within the World Music Department. An Argentine pianist, arranger, composer, researcher, and educator specializing in tango music, she has toured the world as the pianist of the Quinteto Astor Piazzolla among other ensembles. She […]
Pablo Palomino
Back to all Pablo Palomino is Associate Professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Oxford College, Emory University. A cultural historian, born and raised in Buenos Aires and trained there and in Berkeley, California, he published The Invention of Latin American Music: A Transnational History (2020, translated into Spanish by Fondo de Cultura Económica in 2021).
Rielle Navitski
Back to all Photo credit: Dina Canup Rielle Navitski is Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at the University of Georgia in Athens. She is the author of Transatlantic Cinephilia: Film Culture Between Latin America and France, 1945-1965 (2023) and Public Spectacles of Violence: Sensational Cinema and Journalism in Early Twentieth-Century Mexico and […]
Carolyn Merritt
Back to all Carolyn Merritt is a mom, anthropologist, dancer, and author (Tango Nuevo, 2012). She lives in Philadelphia, where she works as a writer and development consultant, teaches yoga, and serves as co-director of the nascent Tango Therapy Project.
J. Lucas McKay
Back to all J. Lucas McKay is Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Neurology at the Emory University School of Medicine. He holds ScB and ScM degrees in Electrical Engineering from Brown University, a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and an MS in Clinical Research from Emory University. […]