Danielle Sekel

Danielle Sekel is the Outreach & Programming Coordinator at the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also a Ph.D. student in musicology at UIUC. Her research focuses on Bosnian hip hop as oral tradition and the intergenerational mass-mediated discourse of Bosnian hip hop artists in the postwar context. Danielle was a FLAS fellow with REEEC from 2019-2021, studying Bosnian and Bulgarian. 

Before coming to UIUC, she was a middle and high school music and literature teacher in South Carolina and has developed curriculum for and taught at K-12 summer programs at the American University in Bulgaria and Wyoming Seminary College Preparatory School (Pennsylvania). At UIUC, she has been a teaching assistant for MUS 110: Introduction to Art Music: International Perspectives and MUS 133: Introduction to World Music.