He has formerly taught at Columbia University, where he received his PhD, and the University of Chicago, where he was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow. His research explores choreomusicality, or the interrelationship of music and dance. He is currently completing a book, The Dancer from the Music, on the use of pre-existing classical music in American modern dance. This summer his article on the intersection of the personal partnership and creative collaborations of John Cage and Merce Cunningham will appear in the Journal of the American Musicological Society. In May he will give the American Musicological Society Library of Congress Lecture in which he will present his research on Bernstein’s conducting.