Courses and Syllabi

Bard College

  • Ukraine and Decolonial Thought (Fall 2023; co-taught with Profs. Masha Shpolberg and Gregory Moynahan)
  • Music and Rights (Spring 2022, Center for Human Rights and the Arts seminar)
  • Contemporary Ethnographies of Music & Sound (Fall 2017)
  • Musical Protest in the U.S. (Fall 2016)
  • Socialist Musical Imaginaries (Spring 2016; Spring 2018; Fall 2023)
  • Geographies of Sound (co-taught with Olga Toulomi, Art History – Spring 2016)
  • Introduction to Ethnomusicology (Undergraduate, Fall 2014, 2015)
  • Music, Sexuality, and Gender (Fall 2015)
  • Explorations in World Music (Undergraduate, Spring 2015)
  • Doing Ethnography: Music & Sound (Undergraduate, Spring 2015)
  • Eastern European Music & Leisure Club (Spring 2015, 2016)
  • Musical Exoticisms (Undergraduate, Fall 2014)

University of Calfornia, Berkeley

  • Tools of Ethnomusicological Research (core Graduate seminar) (Fall 2018, Spring 2021)
  • Music, Sexuality, and Gender (Graduate seminar, Fall 2021)
  • Contemporary Ethnographies of Music and Sound (Graduate seminar, Fall 2020)
  • Music in American Cultures (Undergraduate survey, Fall 2019)
  • Studies of Musics of the World: Music 80 (Undergraduate core, Spring 2020, Spring 2021)
  • Berkeley Connect, director (Fall and Spring 2020)

University of Toronto

  • Musical Exoticisms of Russia, Central Asia and Ukraine (Graduate seminar, Winter 2014)

Columbia University

  • Musical Exoticisms of the Former Soviet Union (Graduate seminar, Spring 2013)
  • Masterpieces of Western Music (Summer 2010 and Fall 2007; Teaching Assistant, 2005)
  • Ear Training I (Spring 2006)
  • Asian Music Humanities, Teaching Assistant (Fall 2006 and Spring 2007)