My academic perspective draws from training in ethnomusicology, historical musicology, religious studies, and South Asian studies. I combine a penchant for the granular study of music and text with an eye toward fundamental questions in the humanities and social sciences.

 

I am currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. My ongoing Ph.D. dissertation project on jazz and India synthesizes political economy, cultural critique, and formal analysis to theorize global music history during the late twentieth century. My dissertation research in Mumbai, India was funded by a Fulbright fellowship during the 2023-24 academic year. You can get taste of it in this article, “Jazz Yatra, the Cold War, and the Utopian Vision of ‘Indo-Euro-Afro-American Music,'” published in India’s World. 

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My previous research project focused on South Asian drumming traditions. I published this work in the peer-reviewed article, "Toward a Dialectical Understanding of North Indian Drumming Traditions: Musical Labor, Dance, and the Folk/Classical Distinction in Banaras," in Asian Music. 

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My academic CV can be found here. My page on the University of Pennsylvania Department of Music website is located here.

 

I hold a B.A. in Religious Studies from Grinnell College with Honors and a M.Mus. in Musicology and Ethnomusicology from King's College London with Distinction. I have previously held research affiliations at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India and the Jyoti Dalal School of Liberal Arts at the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies in Mumbai, India. I am a two-time Fulbright Fellow and have received American Institute of Indian Studies and Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships, among others, to support my study and research.