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Ph.D.

Excellence in Ethnomusicology, Department of Music, UC Santa Barbara

Moses Asch Scholarship, University of Maryland

Teaching Experience

Pomona College, Claremont, CA
Department of Music
Director — Hindustani Music Ensemble

University of California, Riverside
Department of Music
Lecturer
-American Musical Subcultures: A Genealogy of Rock
-Introduction to World Music
- Faculty minigrant for undergraduate instructional improvement projects from the Office of Instructional Development

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
Team-taught interdisciplinary freshman course, modules in music fundamentals, European music, world music, popular music and culture.

Computers and Music Composition
fulfills university requirement for a computer literacy course

California State University Fullerton
Department of Music
Adjunct Lecturer:
Survey of World Music

University of California, Santa Barbara
Department of Music
Teaching Assistant: "Music Appreciation"
Introduction to Western Art Music for non-music majors

University of California, Santa Barbara
Department of Music
Teaching Assistant: "Music in American Popular Culture"

University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Department of Music
Teaching Assistant: "Fundamentals of Music"

"The All-India Music Conferences of 1916-1925: Cultural Transformation and Colonial Ideology" in The Rise of Hindustani Music, Joep Bor, ed., New Delhi: Manohar.

Recording Review “Mystic Sarod”
Asian Music Volume 38/2

"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

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

"Sourindro Mohun Tagore"
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, revised edition,
London: Macmillan.

Review: Allyn Miner, Sitar and Sarod in the 18th and 19th  Centuries.
Bulletin of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, India, Volume 34.

"Researching the Evolution of a Musical Instrument in Modern India"
Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology, Volume 9.

"A Brief Intercultural History of the Sarod"
Proceedings of the Sangeet Research Academy conference,
Indian Music and the West.

"The Tanpura, A Preliminary Spectrographic Analysis of the Jawari Phenomenon,"
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Music Acoustics, Musical Acoustics Research Group of Acoustical Society of Japan.

Continuing field research in Calcutta, India on current and historical instrumental performance traditions.

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.

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

Research Assistant to Dr. Amy Stillman, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Computer transcription of collected Hawaiian songs and song texts.
Use of Finale and Vision music software for Macintosh computer.

Research Assistant to Dr. Lester Monts, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Ethnomusicology Laboratory.
Video and audio recording, video editing, computer transcription.