2012 | Gordhain Patel Distinguished Visiting Professor of Indian Music Studies, Hugh Hodgson School of Music, University of Georgia |
2011 | President’s Stipendium, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbestiz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) scholarship for research at the Berlin State Museums |
1999 | University of California, Santa Barbara Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology |
1988 | California Institute of the Arts M.F.A. North Indian Music/World Music Performance |
1974 | Stanford University M.A. Biological Sciences |
May 2012 | University of Georgia, Athens, GA Hugh Hodgson School of Music Visiting Professor of Music Residency and classes with musicology, music education and jazz majors |
November 2011 | Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (University of Göttingen) Department of Musicology Seminar on Raga |
November, 2008 | University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Series of guest lectures in Popular Music and World Music: Indonesia, Middle East, Central Asia, Anthropology of Popular Music |
2007-2008 2003-2004 |
Pomona College, Claremont, CA Department of Music Director – Hindustani Music Ensemble |
2002 | University of California, Riverside Department of Music Lecturer American Musical Subcultures: A Genealogy of Rock Introduction to World Music |
1997-2001 | California State University San Marcos Global Arts Program, Visual and Performing Arts Lecturer Survey of World Music Survey of World Popular Music General Education in the Humanities Computers and Music Composition Music Traditions of Southeast Asia Javanese Gamelan |
2000-2002 | California State University Fullerton Department of Music Survey of World Music |
1993-1994 | University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Music Music Appreciation Music in American Popular Culture |
1990-1991 | University of Maryland, Baltimore County Department of Music Fundamentals of Music |
2011 | Research project on the instrument collections of Sourindro Mohun Tagore: Berlin State Museum; Museé de la Musique, Paris; Musical Instrument Museum, Brussels; Museum für Völkerkunde,Vienna. President’s Stipendium, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbestiz |
1997-2006 | Continuing field research in Kolkata, India on current and historical instrumental performance traditions. |
1995 | Field Research on the Colonel P.T. French collection of Indian instruments. National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland. Archival research. India Office Library, British Library, London, England. |
1994, 1995 | Field Research in India on development of North Indian classical music performance practice traditions in the 20th century. Senior Performance & Research Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies |
2012 | “The All-India Music Conferences of 1916-1925: Cultural Transformation and Colonial Ideology” in Hindustani Music, Joep Bor, ed., New Delhi: Manohar. |
2003 | “Rabab and Sarod: From Kabul to Calcutta” Exhibition catalog for Inde du Nord: Gloire des princes, louange des dieux, Cité de la Musique, Paris, March - June 2003 |
2000 | Sarod Performance Practice in the Twentieth Century: Tradition and Transformation in North Indian Classical Instrumental Music Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor MI. Committee: Scott Marcus, Chair; Amy Stillman; Alejandro Planchart |
2000 | “Sourindro Mohun Tagore” The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, revised edition, London: Macmillan. |
2012 | Sourindro Mohun Tagore, Hindustani Music, and the Colonization of the European Mind Presented at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia and at the annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, New Orleans |
2008 | “Tradition Transformed: Devotional Music in a Western Context” Presented at the India and the Performing Arts Conference, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. |
2004 | “Revivalism in North Indian Classical Music, or, Everything New Is Old Again” Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Tucson. |
2003 | “The Evolution of Sarod Performance Practice in the 20th Century, With Examples From Historic Recordings and Live Demonstration” Guest lecture, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London. |
2001 | “The Cutting Edge of Tradition: Indian Classical Music and the Internet” Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Detroit. |
2000 | “Time, Performance and Ideology in North Indian Classical Music” Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Toronto. |