Nina is a PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at Harvard University. She has always been interested in how music helps to create, mark and reconstruct, social and spatial boundaries, with a special focus on the Lusophone world. Her doctoral project, entitled “Listening to Petro-Luanda: Popular Music and Citizenship in Post-war Angola”, investigates the ways in which sound and music-making mirror and interact with the fissures and frictions of the African country’s reconstruction process after decades of armed conflict, and in response to a brutal extractive economy. It aims to interrogate the place of music in a reality marked by multiple ‘posts’, i.e. the postcolonial, the post-conflict, the post-development, post-oil-driven optimism, and to invoke listening as a central methodology in the inquiry into contemporary urban Africa. Before coming to Harvard, Nina worked as a public teacher and violin instructor in Italy, her country of origins. She was Erasmus student at the New University of Lisbon, and collaborated with the Institute of Ethnomusicology INET-md within her master’s thesis project (2016) on the migrant experience of a kora-playing griot from West Africa and his transnational network. She received her MA in Musicology at the University of Milan in 2016 and graduated in classical violin at the Conservatory of Music “A. Boito,” Parma, in 2013.