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Lila Ellen Gray is a cultural anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, and interdisciplinary music scholar. She holds a PhD in cultural anthropology and an MA in music from Duke University. Her research and teaching interests include: the anthropology of music, sound, and the senses; affect; media and public culture; heritage politics; peripheral early musics; urban ethnography; gender; post-colonialism; the Lusophone world; Europe; and Portugal. Her book Fado Resounding: Affective Politics and Urban Life (Duke University Press, 2013) is the recipient of the 2014 Woody Guthrie Award for Outstanding Book on Popular Music (IASPM-US). This book is based on ethnographic research conducted during the first decade of the 2000s with amateur fado musicians, listeners, poets, fans, and cultural brokers in Lisbon. Fado Resounding argues ethnographically for the efficacies of a popular music genre, sound, and aesthetics for shaping affective publics. Her 2011 article “Fado’s City,” published in Anthropology and Humanism, was awarded the Jaap Kunst Prize and the Richard Waterman Junior Scholar Prize in Popular Music from the Society for Ethnomusicology in 2012. From 2014-2016, she was the co-convener of the Music and Sound Special Interest Group of the American Anthropological Association. Organizations that have supported her work include: the Social Science Research Council; The Council for European Studies; The Luso-American Foundation for Development; and the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis. She has previously taught on the ethnomusicology faculty at Columbia University (2005-2014) and at the Institute of Musicology at the University of Amsterdam (2015-16). She is currently an Associate Professor of Music at Dickinson College.