My published research addresses the aesthetics and politics of revivals in both North American and South Asian music, and appears in Ethnomusicology, American Music, Asian Music, Bhabanagara, No Depression, Amsterdam University Press, and Illinois University Press. My current book project is an ethnographic case study exploring lifelong learning and motivation within my own community of vernacular string musicians.

I received my PhD in ethnomusicology from the University of Texas at Austin in 2014 and am currently Visiting Assistant Professor at Bryn Mawr College. Before relocating to Philadelphia in May 2025, I served as Assistant Professor and Chair of the Music Program at Warren Wilson College. Here is my C.V.