Tamar Sella is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Music at Harvard University, from where she also earned a PhD in ethnomusicology in 2020. Her research focuses on ancestral memory in contemporary Mizrahi performance in Palestine/Israel, probing questions of race and colonialism in the region, interrogating persisting resonances of occluded social histories in the present day, and exploring articulations of alternative futures. Tamar has also written on jazz and creative improvised music in the United States and is a founding member of We Have Voice, a collective of performers and scholars working toward equity and safe(r) spaces in the performing arts.