Maria Papavasilopoulou is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Music Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. The title of her research is Music and memory among the Sephardic Jews of Rhodes: from the "homeland" to the diaspora and the internet, under the supervision of Professor Panagiotis C. Poulos. During her research at the University of Washington in the context of the Fulbright Program, she will focus on the ethnographic research of the diasporic community of Seattle, formed upon immigration during the beginning of the 20th century by Sephardic Jews from Rhodes. Moreover, she will focus on the history of the formation of The Sephardic Studies Digital Collection (based in the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies) as the first major digital repository related to the Sephardic Jews from the Mediterranean. Maria holds an Integrated Master in Music Studies, with a specialization in ethnomusicology and cultural anthropology, a M.Ed. in Technology of Education, and a B.A. in Classical Philology. Maria is also a poet; she has published two collections of poetry.