Stephanie Khoury
(617) 627-2421
20 Talbot Ave, Room 272
Research/Areas of Interest
Performing arts in relation to mass atrocities (colonization, war, genocide, migration and diaspora); Music and dance in the formation of collective memory; Music and social justice; Soundscapes and the musical construction of place; Digital humanities and sound archives; Southeast Asian performing arts.
Education
- PhD, Anthropology, Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre (aka Univ. of Paris X), France, 2014
- MPhil, Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre, France, 2004
- MA, Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre, France, 2003
Biography
Stéphanie Khoury's research draws on extensive fieldwork experience in mainland Southeast Asia, and with Southeast Asian communities in France and the US, and examines performing arts through the interrelated frameworks of social and power structures, collective memory, the concepts of intangible heritage and of cultural identity, and the expression of culture on the global stage. Additionally, Dr. Khoury's interests look into the musicality of social movements, protests, and the arts of public dissent; urban soundscapes; the role of digital sound archives in the humanities.
Stéphanie Khoury's scholarship has been supported by French government-sponsored research grants and she is a recipient of the Florence Gould Foundation/Center for Khmer Studies doctoral fellowship (Cambodia, 2006), the Quai Branly's Museum doctoral fellowship (France, 2007), and the postdoctoral fellowship from The Laboratory of Excellence Creation, Arts and Heritage at the Sorbonne University (France, 2015), the Autoritas Program/Paris Sciences et Lettres (France, 2017), and a research grant from Tufts University's Tisch College Community Research Center (US, 2020).
Dr. Khoury's publications appears in peer-reviewed journals (Asia-Pacific Journal of Anthropology, Mousson, Péninsule, First Monday), edited volumes, and anthologies (Sage, Edward Elgar), in both English and French. She is currently and co-editing a volume on the complex and interlocking ways intangible heritage is produced and situated both globally and locally, tentatively titled Stagecraft and Cultural Expressions: The Intersectionality of Cambodia's Intangible Heritage to address these issues.
Dr. Khoury also serves as a co-editor of an upcoming book series Global Arts of Performance, at Brill Publishing.
At Tufts, Dr. Khoury teaches courses that explore how music and performing arts creativity intersects with society at undergraduate and graduate levels. She supervises Senior and MA theses for the Department of Music, the International Relations program, and the Civic Studies program, while also serving in thesis committees in other institutions. She mentors students in Tufts-based programs (Laidlaw scholars, Summer Scholars, GREAT).
Since 2024, Dr. Khoury teaches in the Tufts University Prison Initiative at Tisch College (TUPIT), which brings "faculty and students together with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, educators, organizers, corrections staff, and scholars of criminal justice to facilitate creative and collaborative responses to the problems of mass incarceration and racial injustice."
In academia, Dr. Khoury has served as an advisory board member and elected secretary to the Société Française d'Ethnomusicologie, SFE (2014-2017) and as elected co-chair of the Crossroads Section on Difference and Representation for the Society for Ethnomusicology, SEM (2019-2024).
Since 2024, Dr. Khoury is also on the Board of Directors for the Lowell-based Cambodian American non-profit organization Angkor Dance Troupe, which focuses on Cambodian and Cambodian American music, dance, and culture.
Most recently, Dr. Khoury took on the art of storytelling and performed in Suitcase Stories, a show for Global Arts Live, the International Institute of New England, and Stellar Story Company, at the Somerville Theatre, in March 2025.
Expertise: Ethnomusicology, Cultural Anthropology
Stéphanie Khoury's scholarship has been supported by French government-sponsored research grants and she is a recipient of the Florence Gould Foundation/Center for Khmer Studies doctoral fellowship (Cambodia, 2006), the Quai Branly's Museum doctoral fellowship (France, 2007), and the postdoctoral fellowship from The Laboratory of Excellence Creation, Arts and Heritage at the Sorbonne University (France, 2015), the Autoritas Program/Paris Sciences et Lettres (France, 2017), and a research grant from Tufts University's Tisch College Community Research Center (US, 2020).
Dr. Khoury's publications appears in peer-reviewed journals (Asia-Pacific Journal of Anthropology, Mousson, Péninsule, First Monday), edited volumes, and anthologies (Sage, Edward Elgar), in both English and French. She is currently and co-editing a volume on the complex and interlocking ways intangible heritage is produced and situated both globally and locally, tentatively titled Stagecraft and Cultural Expressions: The Intersectionality of Cambodia's Intangible Heritage to address these issues.
Dr. Khoury also serves as a co-editor of an upcoming book series Global Arts of Performance, at Brill Publishing.
At Tufts, Dr. Khoury teaches courses that explore how music and performing arts creativity intersects with society at undergraduate and graduate levels. She supervises Senior and MA theses for the Department of Music, the International Relations program, and the Civic Studies program, while also serving in thesis committees in other institutions. She mentors students in Tufts-based programs (Laidlaw scholars, Summer Scholars, GREAT).
Since 2024, Dr. Khoury teaches in the Tufts University Prison Initiative at Tisch College (TUPIT), which brings "faculty and students together with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, educators, organizers, corrections staff, and scholars of criminal justice to facilitate creative and collaborative responses to the problems of mass incarceration and racial injustice."
In academia, Dr. Khoury has served as an advisory board member and elected secretary to the Société Française d'Ethnomusicologie, SFE (2014-2017) and as elected co-chair of the Crossroads Section on Difference and Representation for the Society for Ethnomusicology, SEM (2019-2024).
Since 2024, Dr. Khoury is also on the Board of Directors for the Lowell-based Cambodian American non-profit organization Angkor Dance Troupe, which focuses on Cambodian and Cambodian American music, dance, and culture.
Most recently, Dr. Khoury took on the art of storytelling and performed in Suitcase Stories, a show for Global Arts Live, the International Institute of New England, and Stellar Story Company, at the Somerville Theatre, in March 2025.
Expertise: Ethnomusicology, Cultural Anthropology