Ana María Díaz-Pinto

Ana María Díaz Pinto is a Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology at the University of California, Davis. Ana María earned her bachelor's degree in musicology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and a master's degree in music from the University of California. Her work focuses on popular music and dance in Latin America, queer culture, and sensory ethnographic film. She is currently researching the Chilean reggaetón scene for her doctoral dissertation, which examines the circuits of music creation, dance, and urban nightlife, and how people reimagine notions of Latinidad and longing in the Southern Cone of the Americas. Her work appears in the edited volume Independence in 21st-Century Popular Music: Cases from Beyond Anglo-America (2025) and the textbook Musics of Latin America (2026), and she has a forthcoming publication in the journal Latin American Music Review (2027). Ana María's doctoral work has been funded by the University of California, the Society for American Music, the International Council for Traditional Music and Dance, and the Bilinski Educational Foundation.