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Amanda E. Daly Berman (Ph. D., Ethnomusicology, Boston University, 2015) is delighted to join the MTA Department at MIT. Her dissertation, “Digital Music Consumption and Social Capital Shifts within the Cape Breton Diaspora in Boston,” utilized a hybrid methodology to create a theory of arts-centered digital social capital. Her research areas include the Cape Breton diaspora in greater Boston, medical ethnomusicology, digital grieving and musiconostalgic practices among veteran populations, music and sports, and music’s role in the war-peace-conflict spectrum.