Thomas R. Hilder (he/they) is a writer, teacher, researcher, musician, activist, and professor of ethnomusicology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). His experiments in scholarship, pedagogy, and community engagement explore musical performance, community, activism, well-being, and voice, shaped by feminist, queer, and postcolonial perspectives. He is author of “Sami Musical Performance and the Politics of Indigeneity in Northern Europe” (2015) and co-editor of “Music, Indigeneity, Digital Media” (2017). In 2016 he co-founded the international LGBTQ+ Music Study Group. At NTNU he is co-leader of the LGBTQ+ Staff Network. In 2023 he was awarded the NTNU staff prize for equality and diversity. He has also helped build Trondheim’s queer choir, Kor Hen. During the academic year 2024-25 he was Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Humboldt University, Berlin.