Areas of Research/Interest: Music and culture of Bukharian Jews, Iran, and Central Asia; recent Jewish migration to the United States; jazz, hip hop, and popular music; issues of race, ethnicity and representation

Fellowships/Honors: 2007-2009: Dorot Post-Doctoral Fellowship, New York University; 2006: Goldie and David Blanksteen Dissertation Award in Jewish Studies, Center for Jewish Studies (CUNY); 2005-2006: Baisley Powell Elebash Dissertation Year Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center; 2001-2005: Robert E. Gilleece Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center.

Select Publications:
“American Music, Multiculturalism, and Bukharian Jews in Queens.” Institute for Studies in American Music Newsletter 36/1 (Fall 2006): 4-5, 14-15.
 
“Listening to the Music of the Brooklyn-Based Rapper Sensational.” In Critical Minded: New Approaches to Hip Hop Studies, edited by Ellie M. Hisama and Evan Rapport, 77-94. ISAM Monographs No. 35. Brooklyn, NY: Institute for Studies in American Music, 2005.

Select Conference Papers:

“Adaptation and Perpetuation of Bukharian Musical Traditions in the United States: An Overview.” Paper presented at the Jewish Music Forum, New York, May 2006.
“The Idea of Hybridity in the Music of Bill Finegan and George Gershwin.” Paper presented at the Society for American Music Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 2006.
“Performing Compositional Processes.” Paper presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Atlanta, November 2005.
"The Residents’ ‘Theory of Obscurity’ and Narratives of Race and Identity in American Popular Music." Paper presented at Columbia Music Scholarship Conference (“Music and Conflict”), New York, January 2005.
“Performance Styles of a Bukharian Singer.” Paper presented at Bar-Ilan University conference (“Music and Piyyut: Beyond Preservation and Exchange”), Ramat Gan, Israel, May 2003; and at Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Miami, October 2003.