Ph.D. Columbia University, (2006), Dissertation: 'The Most Musical Nation: Jews, Culture and Nationalism in the Late Russian Empire'; M.A. Columbia University (2000); B.A. Harvard University (1996); Founding Director, Vice-academic co-chair, Jewish Music Forum of the American Society for Jewish Music (New York); Research Director, Pro Musica Hebraica (Washington, DC).
Research interests: History of Jewish art music; Russian Jewish composers; music in Yiddish culture; history of klezmer music in Eastern Europe and the United States.