Sophie Frankford holds a DPhil in Anthropology (University of Oxford), a MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies (University of Oxford), and a BMus in Music (King’s College London). Her research centers on music in Egypt, with a particular focus on social class, urban space, and issues of modernity. She has taught at the University of Oxford and the Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and has articles forthcoming in the journals Ethnography, Popular Music, and Égypte Soudan Mondes Arabes (ESMA).