Laura Kunreuther's current research focuses on sound, listening, and political subjectivity, specifically the use of sound for political and artistic protest, and the role of interpreters deployed in field missions of the UN. Her work has been supported by grants from the Fulbright-Hays Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Freeman Foundation. Her first book, Voicing Subjects: Public Intimacy and Mediation in Kathmandu (Berkeley), traces the relation between public speech and personal interiority during a moment of democraticization in Nepal through a focus on two formations of voice. At Bard College, Prof. Kunreuther coordinates Sound Cluster, a faculty working group sponsored by the Experimental Humanities program, and affiliated with Bard’s Human Rights, Asian Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies programs. She received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania (1991) and her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan (2002).