Education
Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York
Ph.D. in Music Theory, June 6, 2001
Dissertation: "A Vast Simplicity: Pitch Organization in the Music of Carl Ruggles"
Advisor: Joseph Straus
Second reader: Philip Lambert
Other major professors: Carl Schachter, Charles Burkhart
Queens College, City University of New York
M.A. in Music Theory, February, 1998
Cleveland State University
B. Music, 1989
Senior project: "Cape Breton Fiddling and its Scottish Antecedents"