She is also the Managing Editor of the Dutch Journal of Music Theory. In South Africa she has been based as a Research Fellow at the University of Kwazulu-Natal. In 2007 she started a project on global representations of South African maskanda music at the Research Institute for History and Culture (OGC), Utrecht University. Her talk on 16 October was entitled ‘Maskanda overseas: Some preliminary enquiries’. She discussed how maskanda has become ‘world music’, and how this transformation affects the musical and intellectual signs and narratives of maskanda.