Kira Dralle is a jazz and popular music scholar whose work bridges academic and public musicology. She serves as Co-Editor in Chief of Jazz Perspectives and was recently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She has held positions at Indexical, an experimental music venue in Santa Cruz, and was a Visiting Scholar in Residence at the University for Music and Performing Arts Graz, where she worked in the jazz archives of Dietrich Schulz-Köhn. Dralle has also curated and written for public-facing events, including the Steirischer Herbst Festival, the Black Sound Symposium, and the Northern California Performance Platform. Her research, at the intersection of historical ethnomusicology, visual culture, and political philosophy, examines archival silence around Black jazz musicians in the Third Reich and Vichy France and its effects on transatlantic jazz historiography. She also reconsiders the legacy of Joséphine Baker alongside unnamed Black jazz instrumentalists in European and Caribbean archives. Her writing appears in Jazz & Culture, Jazzforschung/Jazz Research, Jazz Research News, Notes, and the Journal of Jazz Research.