Updated on 2022/06/29

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DESSIATNITCHENKO, Polina
 
Affiliation
Faculty of International Research and Education, School of International Liberal Studies
Job title
Assistant Professor(non-tenure-track)
Homepage URL
https://polinadessi.com

Education

  • 2011.09
    -
    2017.11

    University of Toronto   School of Graduate Studies (Music)   PhD in Ethnomusicology  

  • 2006.09
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    2011.06

    University of Toronto   Faculty of Music, Department of Anthropology   Hons. BA in Music and Anthropology  

  • 2003.02
    -
    2011.03

    Royal Conservatory of Music   Piano performance   Associate Degree in Performance  

Research Experience

  • 2021.04
    -
    Now

    Waseda University   School of International Liberal Studies   Assistant Professor

  • 2021.09
    -
    2022.03

    Doshisha University   The Institute for the Liberal Arts   Lecturer (part-time)

  • 2018.09
    -
    2020.12

    Harvard University   Department of Music   Postdoctoral Researcher

 

Research Areas

  • Cultural anthropology and folklore

  • Religious studies

  • Theory of art practice

  • Philosophy and ethics

  • Aesthetics and art studies

  • History of Asia and Africa

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Research Interests

  • ethnomusicology

  • Azerbaijan

  • mugham

  • Azerbaijani tar

  • anthropology

  • ghazal poetry

  • Islamic studies

  • phenomenology

  • affect studies

  • post-Soviet studies

  • postcolonialism

  • musicology

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Papers

  • Affective Hermeneutics: Love, Mugham and Post-Soviet Azerbaijani Subjectivities

    Dessiatnitchenko, Polina

    Asian Music   53 ( 1 )  2022  [Refereed]

  • A Nation of Lovers: Mugham, Karabakh, and National Identities in Azerbaijan

    Dessiatnitchenko, Polina

    Eastern Countries International Academy of Architecture   21 ( 2 ) 192 - 203  2021

  • Recording review of “Mugham Souls, Traditional Music of Modern Azerbaijan”

    Dessiatnitchenko, Polina

    World of Music (new series)   8 ( 1 ) 138 - 140  2019

  • "An Elder in Punk Clothes": Purged Frets and Finding True Mugham in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan

    Dessiatnitchenko, Polina

    Ethnomusicology Forum   27 ( 2 ) 136 - 156  2018  [Refereed]

  • National Consciousness in pre-Soviet Azerbaijan and the Development of Mugham

    Dessiatnitchenko, Polina

    Problems of Arts and Culture, International Scientific Journal   65 ( 3 ) 36 - 49  2018

  • Pre-Soviet Shusha and Baku: The Creation of the Azerbaijani Tar

    Dessiatnitchenko, Polina

    Traditions of Mugham at the Intersection of Science and Art     224 - 234  2018

  • Musical and Ontological Possibilities of Mugham Creativity in pre-Soviet, Soviet, and post-Soviet Azerbaijan

    Dessiatnitchenko, Polina

       2017

  • Book review of Aida Huseynova’s “Music of Azerbaijan: from Mugham to Opera”

    Dessiatnitchenko, Polina

    Fontes Artis Musicae   63 ( 4 ) 317 - 319  2016

  • Rendering Musically the Form, Meters, and Meanings of Ghazal Poetry in Azerbaijani Shur Mugham

    Dessiatnitchenko, Polina

    Azerbaijan Mugham Studies: Problems, Perspectives     185 - 194  2015

  • Exploring Intersections of the Historical, Musical, Poetical Journeys of Azerbaijani Mugham

    Dessiatnitchenko, Polina

    World of Music: International Scientific Music Journal of Azerbaijan   4 ( 61 ) 35 - 41  2014

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Awards

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship Award

    2018   Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada  

  • W. Garfield Weston Fellowship Award

    2014   Garfield Weston Foundation  

  • Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) – Doctoral

    2013   Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada  

  • Michael Foreign Study Supplement Award

    2013   Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada  

  • Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) – Master’s

    2011   Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada  

  • David Y. Timbrell Award

    2011  

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