SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS
- Departures and Arrivals: Space in the Frankfurt School
Virtual Workshop, October 2022 – May 2023
University of Louisville (with support from the International Herbert Marcuse Society)
PUBLICATIONS
- Sonnichsen, T. (2023), “Trash in Everything We Do: Suede’s Singles and psychogeography in Madrid”, Riffs: Experimental Writing on Popular Music 6(2): 34-56.
- Sonnichsen, T. (2023; Forthcoming). ‘Ground-Truthing DC Punk History in Adams-Morgan.’ In S. Homan, et al. (Eds.) Interrogating Popular Music and the City. London: Routledge. In Process.
- Sonnichsen, T. (2021). Ethnographic Research and the Internet. In B. Warf (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Internet (pp. 303-317). London: Routledge.
- Sonnichsen, T. (2019). Capitals of Punk: DC, Paris, and Circulation in the Urban Underground. Melbourne: Palgrave MacMillan. LINK
- Sonnichsen, T. (2017). ‘Tout Faux’ Parisian Landscape and Hardcore Punk, 1983-1987. Punk and Post-Punk 6(3), 377-393. LINK
- Sonnichsen, T. (2017). Vinyl tourism: records as souvenirs of underground musical landscapes. Arts and the Market 7 (2), 235-248. LINK
- Sonnichsen, T. (2016). Emotional Landscapes and the Evolution of Vinyl Record Retail: A Case Study of Highland Park, Los Angeles. In B. Hracs, M. Seman & T. E. Virani (Eds.), The Production and Consumption of Music in the Digital Age (pp. 190-205). New York: Routledge.
- Kalafsky, R. V., & Sonnichsen, T. (2015). Employing SWOT Analysis in Coursework on the Geographies of Regional Economic Development and Trade. Journal of Geography 114 (5), 177-187.
- Sonnichsen, T. (2014). Fast and frightening: Spaces of Wellbeing for Women in the Punk Scene. In G. J. Andrews, P. Kingsbury & R. Kearns (Eds.), Soundscapes of Wellbeing in Popular Music (pp. 211-224). London: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
- Sonnichsen, T. (2014). ‘Oh It’s Such a Shame:’ Socio-visual representations of Jay Reatard’s Memphis. Aether 12, forthcoming.
REVIEWS / ESSAYS
- Sonnichsen, T. (2018). “Playing with Tigers: A Minor League Chronicle of the Sixties. By George Gmelch [Book Review]. The Oral History Review [Forthcoming].
- Sonnichsen, T. (2016). Modernity’s Ear: Listening to Race and Gender in World Music [Book Review]. Gender, Place, and Culture 24 (6), 912-914. Link.
- Sonnichsen, T. (2016). Picturing Illinois: Twentieth-Century Postcard Art from Chicago to Cairo [Book Review]. Material Culture. Accepted.
CHAPTER REVIEW
- Bottà, G. (ed, 2016) Unsichtbare Landschaften: Populäre Musik und Räumlichkeit / Invisible Landscapes: Popular Music and Spatialities. Münster: Waxmann.
AWARDS
University of Tennessee
2014
Department of Geography Student Publication Award
2015
Department of Geography Student Publication Award
2016
Department of Geography Special Award for Extraordinary Service
Department of Geography Student Publication Award
California State University – Long Beach
2013
College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s List
PRESENTATIONS
“Symbolic Gentrification and Teaching Popular Culture” presented at
- Central Michigan University Geographer Speaker Series
CMU Dow Hall – Mt. Pleasant, MI – November 1, 2019 - UTK Faculty Mic Night (Video Here)
Relix Variety Theater – Knoxville, TN – November 8, 2018
“Music Videos, Emotional Geography, and Pedagogy” presented at
- Balancing the Mix (Music and Politics Conference)
University of Memphis, TN – March 30, 2019 - Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG) Annual Meeting
Hobart, TAS – July 12, 2019
“Violence, Memory, and Qualitative Challenges in Underground Music” presented at
- International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) Biennial Meeting
Canberra, ACT – June 26, 2019 - Oral History Association (OHA) Annual Meeting
Minneapolis, MN – October 5, 2017 - American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting
Boston, MA – April 7, 2017 - Southeastern Division of the American Association of Geographers (SEDAAG) Annual Meeting – PhD Honors Competition
Columbia, SC – November 21, 2016
“Finding Washington D.C. in French Punk” paper / prospectus presented at
- Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting
San Francisco, CA – March 30, 2016 - Society of Ethnomusicologists, Southeastern Conference (SEMSEC) Annual Meeting
San Fernando, Trinidad – March 4, 2016 - The University of Tennessee Geography Research Symposium (GEOSYM)
Knoxville, TN – February 6, 2016 - The Southeastern Division of the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting (SEDAAG)
Pensacola, FL – November 22, 2015
“Save the Clocktower! The Geographies of Hill Valley, CA in Back to the Future” Panel Organized and Chaired at
- Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting (AAG)
Chicago, IL – April 25, 2015 – Link
“The Flâneur and Flânerie in Geographic Thought” paper presented at
- Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting (AAG)
Chicago, IL – April 21, 2015
“‘The Boston I Knew is Lying on the Ground’ Reinterpreting Urban Landscapes Through Song” paper presented at the following conferences:
- The University of Tennessee Geography Research Symposium
Knoxville, TN – February 21, 2014 - Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting
Tampa, FL – April 10, 2014 - The Southeastern Division of the American Association of Geographers Meeting
Athens, GA – November 25, 2014
“‘Can’t Breakaway’ Indonesian Punk and Xenocentrism” paper presented at the following conference:
- Society of Ethnomusicologists, Southeastern Conference (SEMSEC) Annual Meeting
Gainesville, FL – February 28, 2014
“Emotional Geographies and the evolution of Los Angeles record retail” thesis chapter presented at the following professional meetings and events.
- Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting
Los Angeles, CA – April 10, 2013 – Link - California Geographic Society Meeting
San Luis Obispo, CA – April 27, 2013 - Los Angeles Geographic Society Annual Student Night
Los Angeles City College – May 3, 2013 - Cultural Studies Association Annual Meeting
Columbia College, Chicago – May 24, 2013
“Fast and Frightening: Spatial boundaries for women in the punk community” paper presented at the following professional meetings and events.
- California Geographic Society Annual Meeting
Davis, CA – April 28, 2012 - CSU SSRIC (Social Science Research and Instructional Center) Student Research Conference
California State University, Los Angeles – May 3, 2012 - Los Angeles Geographic Society Student Presentation Night
Los Angeles City College – May 4, 2012 - Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 75th Annual Meeting
Olympia, WA – October 6, 2012
DISSERTATION
Sonnichsen, T. (2017). Capitals of Punk: DC, Paris, and the Circulation of Urban Counternarratives. PhD, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
THESIS
Sonnichsen, T. (2013). Emotion, place, and record collecting in Los Angeles: A post-modernist interpretation. MA, California State University, Long Beach.
OTHER RESEARCH WORK
- “Fast and Frightening: Spatial boundaries for women in the punk community”
Research paper examining spatial dynamics of punk shows and inherent masculinities - “Praxis Makes Perfect: On Qualitative Introspection”
Final paper on qualitative methods based on those conducted by myself and my partners in observational assignments - “Observing and Interpreting Downtown Los Angeles in Three Ways”
Co-Authored with Linda Nguyen and David Schwartz
Qualitative analysis project conducted for Prof. Norman Carter - “Mapping the Historic Cinema Culture of Washington, DC”
Research project on historical GIS of DC movie theaters and cartographic analysis based on archival data from Cinema Treasures
Sonic Geography 