Falina Enriquez is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology. Trained as a cultural and linguistic anthropologist, she studies music and language in dialogue with ethnomusicology, Latin American studies and cultural studies. Her work has mainly examined how music professionals practically, artistically and politically respond to socioeconomic processes like neoliberalism, precarity and structural inequality. She addresses these issues in her book, The Costs of the Gig Economy: Musical Entrepreneurs and the Cultural Politics of Inequality in Northeastern Brazil (University of Illinois Press, 2022). Her work has also appeared in journals, including Current Anthropology and Luso-Brazilian Review, and in edited volumes.
A word from Dean Eric M. Wilcots:
Professor Enriquez has brought her scholarly expertise to graduate students in key areas such as linguistic anthropology and ethnomusicology, and to our broad undergraduate population through the crucially important Ethnic Studies Requirement course, Cultural Anthropology and Human Diversity.