Her research focuses on anthropology of the voice, the politics of authenticity, indigeneity and belonging, music of Native North America and the Appalachian mountains, race and musical genre, music as cultural performance, indigenous language revitalization, and working-class expressive cultures. As an anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, and performing musician, Jacobsen-Bia is invested in linking cultural politics to scholarship about music, art, and aesthetics. She is currently working on a book manuscript based on her ethnographic research on the Navajo Nation, where she sang and played steel guitar with Diné country western bands for two and a half years. For more on Jacobsen-Bia’s work, please visit her faculty page.