Second Year. B.Mus., Viola Performance, B.A., Spanish and Latin American Studies, Honors College at the University of Oregon (2007). 

Interested in intersections between music, literature, and popular culture in Latin America from the colonial period to the present. Current projects examine the voice and mystical experience in nuns´ writings from colonial Peru, and music and urban geography in contemporary Brazil. At Yale this research has been supported by a Mac-Millan Center Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant (2008) and a CLAIS Travel Award (2009). Cristina is currently serving as Student Representative for the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology.