Education
Ph. D. in Central Asian Literature (Uzbek and Chaghatay) from Columbia University, 1980. Dissertation: The Uzbek Oral Epic: Documentation of Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Bards (1980).
B.A in Oriental Languages from City College of New York (1970).

Research Fellowships and Other Awards
Magowan Family Foundation (2017-18): “Interviews on the Klezmer Music of Moldova” (with Christina Crowder).
Westphalian Wilhelms University (WWU) Fellowship (February 2016): “Compositions of Tanburi Isak Fresco According to the Oldest Hamparsum Manuscripts.”
NYU AD Research Enhancement Fund (September 2014-August 2015): “Klezmer Music of Moldova.”
NYU AD Research Enhancement Fund (August 2011-December 2013): “History and Memory in the Traditional Moldovan Wedding Table Song (Cîntec de Masa), ca. 1840-1960.”
The Magowan Family Foundation, (2008, 2007, 2002-2004); Beit Shalom Aleichem, (2003); Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, (2001-2002): “Klezmer: Music, History and Memory.”
The Littauer Foundation, (2000): “The Klezmer Materials of Jeremiah Hescheles.
National Endowment for the Humanities, (1998-99): “The Indian Style in Ottoman Poetry.”
U.S. Department of Education, (1990-92): “Advanced Turkish Teaching Materials.” IREX, (1988, 1989, 1990, 1991): “The Uzbek Oral Epic.”
National Endowment for the Humanities, (1985-87): Annotated Translation of “The Book of the Science of Music According to the Alphabetic Notation” by Prince Demetrius Cantemir (1673-1723).
American Research Institute in Turkey, (1984): “The Philosophy of Music in Ottoman Turkey.”
Princeton University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, (1984): “Music and Zikr of the Sunni Tarikats of Istanbul.”
_______ (1983): “The Ottoman Lyric Form Murabba.’”
National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Research Institute in Turkey, (1983):”The Position of Traditional Art Music in Nineteenth Century Turkey.”
National Endowment for the Arts, (1978-1979): “Jewish Instrumental Folk Music.”

Employment
New York University Abu-Dhabi, Professor of Music (2009-2012), Visiting Professor of Music (2013--2016), Senior Research Fellow (2017-2019).
New York University, Department of Performance Studies, Part-Time Visiting Professor (fall 2008).
Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance (Rubin Academy), Instructor, Jazz and Interdisciplinary Department, (spring 2008-spring 2010).
Bar Ilan University, Music Department (Tel-Aviv), Part-time Associate Professor, (2004-2009).
Center for the Classical Music and Dance of the Orient, Jerusalem, lecturer, (2001-2007).
Yiddish Institute of Tel-Aviv (Beit Shalom Aleichem), lecturer, (2002-2003).
Artistic Director for Jewish and Related Music Programming, 92nd Street Y,( 2004-2007).
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Jewish Music Research Center, Fellow, (2002-present).
Visiting Professor, Bar Ilan University, Department of Musicology, (2001).
Visiting Professor, New York University, Music Department, (2000).
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Coordinator for Turkish and Turkic Programs, (1986—1998).
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Music, Princeton University, (1985).
Princeton University, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Assistant Professor, (1981-1984).

Recent Research Projects
Board Member of the Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae (CMO) project, sponsored by the Deutsches Forschungs Gemeinschaft, under the direction of Prof. Ralf Martin Jager, Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster (2015-2026).

Languages
Spoken: Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, Turkish, Uzbek, Kazakh.
Research: Ottoman, Chaghatay, Persian, Turkmen, Azerbaijani, Uighur, German, French, Romanian.

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