He researches music, dance, ritual practice, media, and the histories of commercial and folkloric cultural representation the Uttarakhand Himalayas and North India. His monograph Recasting Folk in the Himalayas: Indian Music, Media and Social Mobility was published by the University of Illinois Press in 2017. His research can also be found in Ethnomusicology, Journal of Asian Studies, Ethnomusicology Forum, Asian Music, Journal of South Asian Popular Culture and Yearbook for Traditional Music