I'm the author of Sound Play: Video Games and the Musical Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2014), Just Vibrations: The Purpose of Sounding Good (University of Michigan Press, 2016), Loving Muisc Till It Hurts (Oxford, 2019); and coeditor of Queering the Field: Sounding Out Ethnomusicology (Oxford, 2019) and A Cultural History of Western Music in the Modern Age (Bloomsbury, forthcoming). I have contributed op-eds and features to Washington Post, Slate, TIME, Huffington Post, Chronicle of Higher Education, and Pacific Standard. I serve on the Ethics Committee and Publications Committee of the American Musicological Society, and on the boards of Journal of the Society for American Music, Music & the Moving Image, Women & Music, Ethnomusicology Review, Sound Studies, and Journal of Videogame Sound and Music.
I'm the recipient of the 2020 Jerome Goldstein Distinguished Teaching Award (Dartmouth), 2020 Irving Lowens Article Award (Society for American Music), 2020 Marcia Herndon Book Award (Society for Ethnomusicology), 2019 Richard Waterman Prize (Society for Ethnomusicology), 2018 Wetterhahn Memorial Award for Distinguished Creative or Scholarly Achievement (Dartmouth), 2017 Enhanced Junior Faculty Fellowship (Dartmouth), and 2016 and 2011 Philip Brett Award (American Musicological Society).
I'm presently laying groundwork for two transnational ethnographies: Gaslight of the Gods: Chronicles of Trauma, Survival, and Restorative Justice in Music Education around the World (Michigan); and The Revolution Will Be Deafening: Sonic Artillery, Weaponized Peacekeeping, and Global Futures of Civil Protest (publisher TBD).
In AY 2022-23, I will begin a multi-modal and genre-bending project called Touching Pitch: A Decolonial Escapade. Equal parts memoir-treatise, live-recorded collaborative album, and VN-RPG (visual novel role-playing game), Touching Pitch illustrates how culturally-hybridized pedagogies and practices of Western classical improvisation (a so-called "lost art") may empower minoritized musicians to animate a spectrum of anti-racist, anti-assimilationist, and anti-capitalist agendas in the twenty-first century.
As a social justice advocate, I'm a founding coeditor (with Andrew Dell'Antonio) of University of Michigan Press's Music & Social Justice Series; an elected Member of the American Musicological Society's Ethics Committee; a Board Member of JAG Productions, an incubator for theater and community formation; and an Ambassador and volunteer for WISE, an organization seeking to end gender-based violence in the Upper Valley and beyond.
Appointments
2012-16: Society of Fellows, Harvard University
2014-18: Assistant Professor, Department of Music, Dartmouth College
2018-21: Associate Professor, Department of Music, Dartmouth College
2020-present: Chair, Department of Music, Dartmouth College
2021-present: Professor, Department of Music, Dartmouth College
Education
2007: B.A. - Stanford University (Music, English) with Distinction and Honors
2009: M.A. - Harvard University (Music)
2013: Ph.D. - Harvard University (Music)