Classes

Regularly offered graduate seminar. An introduction to the theories and methods of ethnomusicological fieldwork, including changing conceptions of the research site, ethical concerns, interview techniques, the ethnography of musical performance, and data analysis and...

Regularly offered seminar co-taught with Kate van Orden. This course provided insight into music's powerful role in human mobility, seeking to break down barriers between historical and ethnographic methods in a study of musical border crossing. The course focused on...

Undergraduate course co-taught with Carol J. Oja and Michael Uy. This course mounted a semester-long, team-based project to identify and offer professional support to Boston metropolitan-area musicians from communities of color who have recently migrated to the United States...

Freshman seminar. Music is on the move, traveling across geographical boundaries to reach new and broader audiences. As a result, most locales today support a broad array of musics with different histories and styles. This seminar took a comparative approach to the sounds...

Undergraduate/graduate seminar. This course, a collaborative venture in the classroom with musicians of the Harvard-affiliated Silk Road Ensemble, explored the social processes and ethical challenges of intercultural musical exchange, composition, and performance. For...

Regularly offered graduate seminar. Focuses on introduction to scholarly study of music with emphasis on the history and methodologies of ethnomusicology. Theories of music in culture, field methods, analytical and notational strategies, and critical tools for scholarship.

Graduate seminar in general education co-taught with Mayra Rivera and Tessa Lowinske Desmond. "Hyphen-Nation" explored the interactions of ethnicity/race, migration, and human rights in shaping twenty-first century United States, with particular attention to the past and...

Undergraduate/graduate seminar co-taught with Carol J. Oja. This seminar explored the childhood and early career of one of the 20th century’s most renowned musicians and composers. Working in teams, students fused ethnography and archival research to explore the interlinking...