Dr. Janie Cole (PhD University of London) is a Research Scholar at Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music and Visiting Professor in Yale’s Department of Music, an Affiliate of the Yale Council on African Studies, Research Officer for East Africa on the University of the Witwatersrand and University of Cape Town’s interdisciplinary project Re-Centring AfroAsia (2018-), and a Research Associate at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (2022-). Prior to this, she was a Senior Lecturer (adjunct) at the University of Cape Town’s South African College of Music for nine years (2015-23). Fellowships and awards include The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti (2005-06) and the Claude V. Palisca Award in Musicology from the Renaissance Society of America (2020). She is co-founder of the International Musicological Society Study Group Early African Sound Worlds, and the founder/executive director of Music Beyond Borders.