When We First Began: New Sonic Histories of Hip Hop

Pyar Seth is a Visiting Research Scholar at King’s College London and a doctoral candidate at Johns Hopkins University pursuing a dual degree in Anthropology and Political Science. Broadly, he studies Black Atlantic Thought, policing and medicalization, and the epistemic organization of health, disease, and risk. His dissertation is entitled, The Spectral Defect: Death, Diagnosis, and Determinism Across the Atlantic World; it is an intellectual history of medical diagnoses that have been used to ‘explain away’ racialized fatalities that occur in state custody. Pyar is also a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Research Scholar and a Graduate Research Associate to the Black Beyond Data Project. His other scholarly inquiries examine insurance and the slave trade, rest and the moral imagination, and music and the medical humanities.