Luis-Manuel Garcia, PhD Candidate, Ethnomusicology

•  Sep 2010 
  James C. Hormel Dissertation Fellowship in Lesbian and Gay Studies View website
•  Sep 2009 
  Whiting Teaching Fellowship, University of Chicago
•  Sep 2008 
  Assistanceship for Alternative Learning Technologies in Paris View website
•  Jul 2008 
  Wadmond Research Fund View website
•  Sep 2006 
  Assistanceship for Alternative Learning Technologies in Paris View website
•  Sep 2004 
  Century Fellowship View website
•  Sep 2003 
  Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC), Honorary View website
•  Jun 2003 
  Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OSAP) View website
•  Jan 2003 
  Gordon Cressey Student Leadership Award View website

Luis-Manuel Garcia is a PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago. His doctoral project focuses on intimacy and affect in crowds, as the manifest on the dancefloors of Electronic Dance Music events (i.e., "house" music, "techno," etc.). This is a multi-sited ethnographic project that follows a translocal "scene," a circuit of moving bodies and music between Chicago, Paris, and Berlin.

He has also begun preliminary work on his post-doctoral project, which takes as its object the recent emergence of “techno tourism” (i.e. tourism attached primarily to Electronic Dance Music nightlife). It will develop an account of this "techno tourism" as both a cultural and commercial phenomenon, and it will trace its entanglement with various forms of spatial and social mobility.