Present Positions at Tufts University
Executive Director, Hillel Foundation at Tufts University 1979-present
Associate Professor of Music 2003-present
Lecturer, German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature 1985-present
Associate Chaplain (Jewish) 1979-present

Education
Ph.D. Tufts University 1995  Inter-disciplinary Doctoral Program (Ethnomusicology). Committee: David Locke (chair), Mark Slobin, Mark DeVoto, Joel Rosenberg. Dissertation: Melody Choice in Contemporary Jewish Worship: A Cross-denominational Study of the Kabbalat Shabbat Service 
MA Tufts University 1988 (Ethnomusicology).  Thesis: The Role and Function of the Part-Time Cantor
Rabbinic Ordination, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion 1979 Thesis: The Song of Songs in the Biblical Tradition of the Yemenite Jews. Sound Recordings housed by invitation at the National Sound Archive, Hebrew University in Jerusalem
MAHL Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion 1975
BA Brandeis University 1972

Publications
Books and resources
The Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Worship, Oxford University Press, 2000.  Winner of the Musher Publication Prize from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture.
Abayudaya: The Jews of Uganda, with photojournalist Richard Sobol, Abbeville Press, 2002. (popular)
Cabaret at the Edge of the World: Performing in the Shadow of the Holocaust; a resource and production guide. With Philip Bohlman and Hankus Netsky. Published by Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, 2005. CD included. Web resources

Articles (Academic & Popular)
"Nusah and Identity: The Contemporary Meaning of Traditional Jewish Prayer Modes" in Music and American Religious Experience. Edited by Philip V. Bohlman, Maria Chow, and Edith Blumhofer, Oxford University Press, 2006
“If You Prolong Your Stay at Table, You Prolong Your Life: Jewish Music and Food” in The Ethnomusicologist’s Cookbook. Edited by Sean Williams, Routledge Press, 2006
"The Meaning of Our Melodies: Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Worship" in Perspectives in Jewish Learning, Volume VIII, The Spertus College of Judaica Press, 2002
"Identity and Melody Choice in Contemporary American Jewish Worship" in Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Jewish Music. Edited by Alexander Knapp, City University, London, 1997
"I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy?" Identity and Melody at an American Simhat Torah Celebration."  Ethnomusicology 37/1, 1993
“The Power of Music in Community” in Living Torah. Edited by Elaine Rose Glickman, URJ Press, 2005
“Living in Difficult Times” in Living Words. Edited by Susan Berrin, Jewish Family and Life Publishing, 2001
“Shabbat Shuvah” in Living Words. Edited by Susan Berrin, Jewish Family and Life Publishing, 1999
“The Role of the Shaliach Tsibur” in Kerem: Creative Explorations in Judaism. Jewish Study Center Press, Winter 1992-93

Compact Discs (produced, compiled, annotated and recorded)
A Cabaret in the Warsaw Ghetto. Produced with Hankus Netsky. Hillel Foundation at Tufts University, 1993. Expanded and reissued by Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, 2005
Abayudaya: Music from the Jewish People of Uganda. Recorded, compiled and annotated. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2004. Nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of Traditional World Music
Abayudaya: The Jews of Uganda. CD to accompany the book, Abayudaya: The Jews of Uganda. Abbeville Press, 2002
The Lords Song in a Strange Land. CD to accompany the book The Lord's Song in a Strange Land: Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Worship.  Oxford University Press, 2000
Shepherd of the Highways. Lyrics and music by Jeffrey A. Summit. Recorded as LP. Mount Moriah Music, 1976

Book Reviews
Review of American Klezmer: Its Roots and Offshoots.Edited by Mark Slobin. University of California Press, 2002. Reviewed in The Newsletter of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, 2003
Review of Music in Lubavitcher Life. By Ellen Koskoff. University of Illinois Press, 2000. Reviewed in Notes, 58/3, 2002
Review of Modern Jews and Their Musical Agendas.  Edited by Ezra Mendelsohn, Studies in Contemporary Jewry 9. Oxford University Press, 1993. Reviewed in The Journal of Ethnomusicology, 40/1, 1996
Review of The World Center for Jewish Music in Palestine 1936-1940. Jewish Musical Life on the Eve of World War II. By Philip Bohlman. Oxford University Press, 1992. Reviewed in the Jarbuch fur Volksleidforschung, 1995
Review of Singing for Survival: Songs of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940—45. By Gila Flam. University of Illinois Press. 1992. Reviewed in the Jarbuch fur Volksleidforschung, 1994

Academic Papers and Lectures (selected)
“Technology and the Transmission of Oral Tradition in the Contemporary Jewish Community.” Yale University/Amherst College Conference, “Sacred Music in Transition.” 2006
“Coffee, Music and the Commodification of Peace in Uganda.” Ethnomusicology Faculty Seminar, Indiana University, 2006
“The Music and Culture of the Jews of Uganda.” Judaic Studies Program Lecture, Indiana University, 2006

“Musical Diasporas: The Sounds of Afro-Creolite, Wandering Jews, and Unfinished African Migrations.” Chair and discussant. SEM, 2005
“Music and Culture of the Abayudaya of Uganda.” Faculty Colloquium, Vanderbilt University, 2005
Scholar in Residence, Michigan Festival of Sacred Music, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2005
“Abayudaya: Music from the Jewish People of Uganda.” Spertus College of Judaica, Chicago, Invited to deliver The Solomon Goldman Lecture, 2005
“Music and Identity among the Abayudaya of Uganda.” Northeastern University, Invited lecture, Musicology seminar, 2005
“Collaboration between Producer/Recordist and Record Label: The Diffusion of Musical Knowledge via Recording Sales.” SEM, Panelist, 2004
“The Music and Culture of the Abayudaya of Uganda.” Pinkus Family Lecture, Drew University, 2004
“Music and Identity in Jewish Worship.” Boston University, Ethnomusicology seminar, 2004
“Music and the Construction of Jewish Identity Among the Abayudaya of Uganda.” Brown University, Conference on “Music and Identity,” 2004
 “Music and the Construction of Jewish Identity Among the Abayudaya of Uganda.” SEM, 2003
“The Coded Meaning in Melody in Contemporary Jewish Music.” Princeton University, Invited lecture by the Department of Music, 2003
“The Music of the Abayudaya of Uganda.” Hebrew College, Boston, MA, 2003
“Music and the Construction of Jewish Identity Among the Abayudaya of Uganda.”  Yale University, Conference “Jewish Music Today,” 2003

“Code-switching and Melody Choice in Jewish Worship.” University of Santa Barbara, Invited lecture to Graduate Seminar in Ethnomusicology, 2003
“Music and the Construction of Jewish Identity.” Dartmouth College, Invited lecture to Ethnomusicology seminar, 2002
“The Meaning of Our Melodies: Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Music.” Stanford University, Invited lecture, The Department of Music and the Department of Religion, 2001
“Music and the Construction of Community among the Abayudaya (Jewish People) of Uganda.” SEM, 2001
"The Meaning of Our Melodies: Music and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Worship."Spertus College of Judaica, Chicago, Invited to deliver The Solomon Goldman Lecture, 2000
“The Torah Service and the Re-enactment of Revelation.” SEM, 2000
“Code-Switching and Melody Choice In Contemporary Jewish Music.” Harvard  University. Invited lecture, Ethnomusicology seminar, 1999. 
"Constructing Authenticity through the Performance of Sacred Text" SEM, 1999
"Identity and Melody Choice in Contemporary American Jewish Worship." City University, London, England, “Jewish Music Today: Second International Conference on Jewish Music,” 1997
    “A Consideration of the Sabbath Hymn, Lekhah dodi." SEM, 1996
    “Nusach and Identity in Contemporary Jewish Worship.” University of   Chicago,
Conference “Music and American Religious Life,” 1994
“Code-Switching and Melody Choice in Contemporary Jewish Worship” SEM, 1993
  “I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy: Melody and Identity Choice in an American Simhat   Torah Celebration.” SEM, New England Region, 1991          
“The Role of the Part-Time Cantor.” SEM, New England Region, 1989

Oral History Projects
Generation to Generation: An Oral History Project with the Jewish Community of Somerville, Massachusetts. With Jeff Todd Titon. Winner of International Hillel’s Haber Award for Excellence in Jewish Campus Programming. 1993
Telling History: An Oral History Project with the Jewish Community of Annecy, France. In conjunction with Tufts European Center, Talloires, France. 1987-1994. Winner of International Hillel’s Haber Award for Excellence in Jewish Campus Programming. 1990

Funded Research Projects
“Changing Attitudes Across Religious Community: Developing Models for College Campuses.” Funded by the Department of Homeland Security, Office of Academic Affairs, co-principle investigator (with Jonathan Wilkenfeld)  2006-2009

Courses
Music and Prayer in the Jewish Tradition (Ethnomusicology)
Graduate Seminar in Fieldwork (Ethnomusicology)
Music as Culture (Ethnomusicology)
Introduction to the Talmud (Judaic Studies)
France, the Holocaust and the Rebirth of French Jewry, Tufts European Center, Talloires France (Judaic Studies)

Prizes, Awards and Grants
The Dr. Benjamin J. Shevach Memorial Award for distinguished achievement in Jewish educational leadership, Hebrew College's highest academic award.
International Hillel, Exemplar of Excellence Award, 2004
Musher Publication Prize for “The Lord’s Song in a Strange Land” by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, 2000
Society for Ethnomusicology's Jaap Kunst Prize for the outstanding paper published by a graduate student in the Journal of Ethnomusicology. 1993
James T. Koetting Memorial Prize for the outstanding graduate student paper presented at the annual meeting of the Northeast Chapter of the Society of Ethnomusicology, 1991
B'nai B'rith's Jacob Burns Prize for the Promotion of Ethics on Campus.  1991
Past-president of the National Hillel Professional Association.