Emily Mellen is a PhD Student in the McIntire Department of Music at the University of Virginia, where she holds research interests in music and sound in the Arab world, music & politics, music & altered states of consciousness, ethnography, timbre, voice studies, women in music, and global pop. Her disseration focuses on voice, technology, and storytelling in colonial and postcolonial North Africa. Mellen hopes to use her time in the DH Certificate to explore postcolonial DH theory and sound studies in addition to developing an archive building skillset that includes knowledge of databases and scholarly management systems.