1991-present Member of the Faculty, The Evergreen State College (Olympia, WA). To view a list of classes taught at Evergreen, see Academic Programs.

2005 Visiting faculty, Semester at Sea (shipboard university run by the University of Pittsburgh). Voyage around the North Atlantic (Nova Scotia, Reykjavik, St. Petersburg, Gdansk, Antwerp, LeHavre, Dublin, and Bilbao). Courses taught include Music of the North Atlantic, and Music in Society.

2002-2006 Speaker, Inquiring Mind Series (sponsored by the Washington Commission for the Humanities). Topics: “Islam and Music of the Islamic World,” and “Ireland, Living Between Worlds.”

1996-2003 Managing Editor, Asian Music Journal (an international refereed journal with contributors drawn primarily from Asia, Europe and the United States), issues 28/1 through 34/2.

1994-1998 Co-editor, with Dr. Terry Miller, of the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, volume 4 (Southeast Asia). New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.

1996-1997 Panel Member of Washington State Folk Arts Commission, judging applicants for the Folk Arts apprenticeship program

1995 Panel Member of Oregon Folklife Program, judging applicants for the Traditional Arts apprenticeship program

1992-1994 Programmer, KAOS Radio (The Evergreen State College), weekly show titled “Beyond the Silk Road”

1990-91 Visiting Assistant Professor, Columbia University (New York)

1990 Teaching Assistant, “Popular Music of the Non-Western World” University of Washington, with Dr. Christopher Waterman

1989 Research Assistant, School of Music, University of Washington, with Dr. Lorraine Sakata [helped create a musical atlas of Pakistan]

1987-89 Doctoral dissertation fieldwork in West Java, Indonesia

1987 Teaching Assistant, “Introduction to Music” University of Washington [topics: Music History and Theory labs]

1986 Teaching Assistant, “Music Cultures of the World” University of Washington [topic: Music of Asia]

1983 Teaching Assistant, “Introduction to Music” University of Washington [topics: Music History and Theory labs]

1984-85 Research Assistant/Archives Assistant, Ethnomusicology Archives, School of Music, University of Washington

1980-81 Research Assistant, development of a polyglossary for James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, University of California [French specialist]. Brendan O hEithir, supervisor.