Hadi Milanloo is a PhD candidate in Ethnomusicology at the University of Toronto. His doctoral work explores the music and lives of female instrumentalists who perform Iranian classical music in Tehran as a way of examining the intersections of music, gender, and resistance/resilience in Iran. He works towards an ethnomusicological approach that accounts for both aesthetic contributions and social activism of Iranian female musicians. Before joining the University of Toronto, Hadi completed his MA-level studies at Memorial University, where his Major Research Project focused on the musical life stories of eight Iranian émigré women in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Additionally, he earned his first MA in Art Studies at the University of Tehran. Hadi is also a musician (Bachelor of Music, University of Tehran) and has studied Setar and the radif of Iranian Classical Music with Ostad Dariush Talai and Hamid Sokuti, among others.
Milanloo, Hadi
Doctoral Candidate, University of Toronto
