Director of the Environment & Sustainability Program in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability, in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Associate Professor of Musicology in the School of Music, in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, at UNC Greensboro. A fellow of the American Academy in Rome, he earned a PhD from Harvard University with a dissertation on the nineteenth-century Italian reception of Beethoven. His BA in music and BSc in ecological studies are from Tulane University. He is co-editor with Kevin Dawe of the collection Current Directions in Ecomusicology: Music, Culture, Nature (Routledge, 2016), which was the 2018 recipient of the Ellen Kosko Edited Volume Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology.

Direttore dell’Environment & Sustainability Program al College of Arts and Sciences dell’Università del North Carolina a Greensboro (Dipartimento di Geography, Environment, and Sustainability), e professore associato di musicologia alla School of Music del College of Visual and Performing Arts nella medesima università. Borsista dell’Accademia Americana a Roma, ha conseguito un PhD all’Università di Harvard con una tesi sulla ricezione di Beethoven nell’Italia dell’Ottocento, oltre a una laurea in musica e a una laurea in studi ecologici presso la Tulane University. Con Kevin Dawe ha curato il volume Current Directions in Ecomusicology: Music, Culture, Nature (Routledge, 2016), che nel 2018 ha ricevuto l’Ellen Kosko Edited Volume Prize, dalla Society for Ethnomusicology.