Ph.D. candidate Eliza Marks received a prestigious Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) fellowship to conduct research in Amman, Jordan, for her dissertation on the city’s underground and alternative music scenes.

Marks is focusing on a collection of Amman-based musicians, producers, organizers, collectives, and labels whose work and network-building has expanded significantly since the mid-2010s. She is interested in the production, multi-sensory aesthetics, and sociality of their music and arts events, and how creative communities emerge from online and in-person connections and interactions.