Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Scholar
Jacqueline (Lin) Georgis is an ethnomusicologist with research interests in the music cultures of the Luso-African world; African popular music; migration; electronic dance music; and urban youth culture. She is currently a Society of Fellows postdoctoral scholar at Boston University where she has affiliations with African American and Black Diaspora Studies and the Musicology & Ethnomusicology Department. Starting fall 2025, Lin will join the Music Department at College of the Holy Cross as Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology.
She is currently working on a book on the late Cape Verdean singer, Cesária Évora, tentatively titled Cesária Évora’s Miss Perfumado, which is under contract with Bloomsbury Publishing’s 33 1/3 African Popular Music Series. Her second book project, Batida Nights: Luso-African Electronic Dance Music in Lisbon, examines questions of cultural hybridity and transnational exchange within the Lusophone-Atlantic. Through the lens of “batida,” a contemporary African- inspired electronic dance music created in Lisbon, Portugal, Batida Nights traces the roots and development of Luso-African music in Lisbon from the mid-20th century to today, investigating the ways in which local producers, DJs, and record label managers have created alternative spaces of Afro-diasporic cultural expression and visibility. You can read her work in Sonic Signatures (2023), an edited volume on the phenomenon of migrant and mobile music-making at night.
When she’s not teaching or doing research, Lin enjoys making music! As a classically trained cellist, Lin has been a member of various orchestras, from the Orchestra Lamoureux in Paris to local orchestras in Boston, including the Apollo Ensemble of Boston.