Education:

•	Ph.D. - Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Pennsylvania. "The Sangitopanisatsaroddhara: a fourteenth-century Sanskrit work on music from western India" 1994. See publications.
•	Ph.D. - Department of Musicology, Banaras Hindu University, "Hindustani Instrumental Music in the Early Modern Period" 1982. See publications.
•	Sangit Pravin (M.Mus.) Prayag Sangit Samiti, Allahabad 1978.
•	B.A. South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison 1974.

Performance Training (sitar):

•	Ali Akbar Khan, San Rafael CA, since 1985
•	Raj Bhan Singh, Varanasi, India 1971-82

Musicology:

•	Prem Lata Sharma, Banaras Hindu University 1978-82

Academic Positions:

•	Senior Lecturer, Music, South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania 2004.
•	Lecturer A. South Asia Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania. 1993-98, 1999-2004.
•	Lecturer B, South Asia Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania 1987-1992.
•	Visiting Faculty, School of Music, New York University. Spring 2000.
•	Visiting Faculty, School of Music, University of Washington. Summer 1993.
•	Lecturer in Ethnomusicology, Esther Boyer College of Music, Temple University 1983-88.

Courses Taught:

•	Beginning Sitar I and II South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1987- ongoing.
•	Intermediate Sitar I and II South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania 2004-ongoing
•	Performing Arts in South Asia South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania. 1993- fall semesters. Penn-in-India 1995, 96.
•	History of Music in India South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania. 2006 - alternating spring semesters
•	Musical Cultures of North India and Pakistan South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1994 - alternating spring semesters
•	Indian Literature and the West South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2000-01.
•	World Musics and Cultures Department of Music, University of Pennsylvania, 2000-02.
•	Graduate Seminar in South Asian Music Department of Music, NYU 2000
•	Readings in Sanskrit Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1995.
•	Seminar in Indian music School of Music, University of Washington, 1993.
•	Advanced Hindi South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1989-90.
•	Beginning Sanskrit St. John's College, Santa Fe, Summer 1989.
•	World Musics Esther Boyer College of Music, Temple University, 1985-88.