About me Central High School, Philadelphia B.Mus. and M.Mus. — New England Conservatory of Music Ph.D. in Music — Princeton University American Institute of Indian Studies Fellowship to study the sitar in India — 1984-1985 Exodus steelband, 1986 Carnival Panorama competition, Trinidad Social Science Research Council Dissertation Research Fellowship to study Mande music (kora, balafon, jembe) in Senegal, Mali, The Gambia, and Guinea — 1988-1990 Director, Summer Jembe Institute, UNC Greensboro, 1996-1998 Director, NEH Summer Institute 2011, Ethnomusicology and Global Culture Professor of Music, Wesleyan University My courses offered this year at Wesleyan Other Hannah: journalism Priya: quidditch; clarinet Miriam: basketball; guitar PBs: marathon (2011); half marathon (#1222) (2010)
