Jun.Prof. Dr. Sean Prieske

Juniorprofessur seit 1.10.2025 Homepage

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sean.prieske[at]uni-koeln.de

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+49 221 470 90698

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Research interests
- Music and migration, especially in refugee contexts
- Processes of musical and cultural exchange
- Music of the eastern Mediterranean region with a focus on maqam musical traditions
- Music and cultural policy

Projects
Music Exchange and Cultural Policies between Germany and the Mashreq 1945 to 2000

Education
2017-2025: PhD in musicology with a thesis on "Music and Forced Migration.  A Qualitative Study of Musical Practices of Refugees in Berlin" at Humboldt University of Berlin. Primary supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Klotz (Chair of Transcultural Musicology and Historical Anthropology of Music, Humboldt University in Berlin), secondary supervisor: Prof. Dr. Tiago de Oliveira Pinto (UNESCO Chair on Transcultural Music Studies, University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar).

2012-2016: Master's degree in Musicology at Humboldt University of Berlin.

2009-2012: Bachelor's degree in Music and Media with a minor in German Linguistics at Humboldt University of Berlin and Newcastle University.

Professional activity:

Since 2025: Assistant professor for ethnomusicology with a focus on "Music and Migration" at the University of Cologne.

2024-2025: Postdoctoral researcher at Paris Lodron University of Salzburg with a subproject on international music networks and cultural policy in Germany and Austria between 1930 and 1950 as part of the Austrian-German research project “PopPrints. The Production of Popular Music in Austria and Germany 1930-1950,” funded by the FWF and the DFG.

2024-2025: Project manager for the project "Musikalische Stolpersteine" (Musical Stumbling Blocks) at the Berlin State Music Council.

2024: Assistant Director at the Center for World Music at the University of Hildesheim Foundation.

2022-2024: Research assistant and lecturer at the UNESCO Chair on Transcultural Music Studies at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar.

2021: Research group leader of an X-Student Research Group at the Berlin University Alliance.

In addition, numerous teaching assignments at various universities, freelance work as a musician and music educator, and work as a podcaster for the podcast “Musikgespräch.”

Sean Prieske is a member of the academic network "Music and Social Transformations of the Present", funded by the German Research Foundation (PF 669/19-1).

Awards:

2024: Erasmus+ scholarship from the European Union

2018-2021: Doctoral scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation

2018: Maria Hanáček Award from the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, German-speaking branch

2018: Conference Award from the Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research

2011-2012: Erasmus scholarship from the European Union