I am Chair and Professor of Music at Dartmouth College. My research and teaching focus on history, media, ethics, disability, race, and digital games. I received a B.A. in Music and English from Stanford University in 2007, and a Ph.D. in Musicology from Harvard University in 2013. Between 2012–16, I was a Junior Fellow with the Harvard Society of Fellows.
I'm a founding coeditor of University of Michigan Press’s Music & Social Justice series. In addition to books and academic articles, I have written op-eds and features for publications such as Washington Post, Slate, TIME, Huffington Post, Chronicle of Higher Education, and Pacific Standard. I serve on the Council 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 am 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 am currently preparing a 2nd edition of Just Vibrations (University of Michigan Press, originally published 2016), coediting A Cultural History of Western Music in the Modern Age (with Danielle Fosler-Lussier, Bloomsbury Academic), and completing two new monographs – Gaslight of the Gods: Chronicles of Trauma, Survival, and Restorative Justice in Music Education (University of Michigan Press) and The Revolution Will Be Deafening: Sonic Artillery, Militarized Peacekeeping, and the Future of Civil Protest (publisher TBD).
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)