He teaches and writes on acoustic violence; voice; listening; jazz in New York; music in the anthropocene, Russian-language sung poetry, and the auditory imagination. His monograph Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq (Oxford, 2015) received a PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers and the Alan Merriam Prize from the Society of Ethnomusicology. Daughtry is co-editor, with Jonathan Ritter, of Music in the Post-9/11 World (Routledge 2007), and has published essays in Social Text, Ethnomusicology, Music and Politics, Russian Literature, Poetics Today, and a number of edited collections. He is currently writing a small book on interspecies vocality, atmosphere, particulate matter, radio waves, and art.