I am a music theorist specializing in the study of meter. I use a variety of methods, including timing measurement, experiments, interviews, and participant observation to theorize the organization of musical time. Most of my work concerns music and dance from southeastern Europe, and I have conducted more than a year of fieldwork in Bulgaria. My recent and ongoing projects include experiments in which participants tap along with recordings of Bulgarian music, contributing to a large-scale cross-cultural project on rhythm perception, and interpreting an early twentieth-century treatise on Bulgarian meter. I also served for nine years as the managing editor of the journal Analytical Approaches to World Music.

Since 2017 I have been an Assistant Professor in Residence in the Music Department at the University of Connecticut, where I teach courses in ear training and musical form and analysis. I am also a faculty affiliate of the Connecticut Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences at UConn. I hold a PhD in music theory from Yale University, an MA in music theory from the University of British Columbia, and a BA in music from Carleton College. I grew up in Pennsylvania, and before I specialized in music theory, my primary instrument was euphonium.

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