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Place of Birth:     Teslic, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Yugoslavia
Citizenship:         U.S.A.

Education

2001-present: Graduate student, Master of Science Program, Information Systems.  University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Information Systems. Baltimore.  Courses taken:

Music in Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, Arab Countries • Music in Southeastern Europe (Former Yugoslavia) and the Balkans

Music and Islam: Tasavvuf (Sufi) and Mosque Music in Turkey and the United States of America • National Muslim Cultures and Transnational World Trends • Makams, Turkish music modes, in theory and practice

Music and Christian Rituals: Orthodox Liturgy (Serbian, Russian, American, Greek, Syrian in the U.S. and Turkey) • Catholic Mass (U.S.) • Protestant Services: Episcopalian, Methodist, Lutheran, Baptist, Pentecostal (U.S.)

Music and Jewish Rituals: Orthodox Hasidic, Reconstructionist, Reform

Popular, Techno Pop, and Computer-generated Music, Music in Radio and TV Commercials, Music Industry

Music, Ethics, Power, Politics

Theory and Philosophy of Ethnomusicology: Anthropological, Sociological, Philosophical, Historical Approaches

Ethnomusicology and Theories of Practice, Memory, Identity (Self, Other), Body

1991-present:   University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Department of Music, Baltimore.  Instructor.

2000 Fall:   Gettysburg College (GC), Department of Music, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.  Adjunct Assistant Professor.

2000 Spring:  University of Maryland (UM), School of Music, Graduate Studies in Ethnomusicology, College Park.  Lecturer.

1999 Spring:  The College of William and Mary (W&M), Department of Music, Williamsburg, Virginia.  Adjunct Assistant Professor.

1997 Fall:  Towson University (TU), Department of Music, Towson.  Adjunct faculty.

1987-1991:   University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Music.  Teaching assistant.

1979-1983:  Gimnazija (high school), Teslic , Yugoslavia.  Music teacher.

Graduate

Other Prepared but not Taught Graduate Courses

1999 Fall:  University of Maryland, School of Music, Graduate Studies in Ethnomusicology, College Park.  Lecture: "Eastern Europe as Islamic Bridge."  Course: Music in World Cultures II (MUET433).  Invited by Carolina Robertson.

1998 Spring:  University of Zagreb, Music Academy, and Croatian Musicological Society.  Zagreb, Croatia  Lectures: "Sufi Rituals, Music, Friendly Discourse (sohbet), and the State Politics in Turkey."  Invited by Svanibor Pettan.

1998 Spring:  University of Sarajevo, Music Academy.  Sarajevo, Bosnia-Hercegovina.  Lectures: "Sufi Rituals, Music, Friendly Discourse (sohbet), and the State Politics in Turkey."

1997 Spring:  University of Virginia, Department of Religious Studies.  Charlottesville, VA.  Lecture: "The Not- forgetting of God in Istanbul: Practicing Music and Moving the Body in the Cerrahi Zikir and Sufi Gatherings."  Course: Islamic Mysticism (RELI312).  Invited by Abdulaziz Sachedina.

1997 Spring:  The College of William and Mary, Department of Music.  Williamsburg, VA.  Lecture: "Ethics and Aesthetics in Muslim Ritual Worship: Mosque and Tasavvuf (Dervish) Music in Turkey."  Course: Music of the Middle East (MUS300).  Invited by Anne Rasmussen.

2000 Spring:  Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Part-time Graduate Programs, Master of Liberal Arts, Baltimore.  Lecturer.   Contract canceled due to lack of enrollment.

1999 Fall:  The Peabody Conservatory of Music (PC), Department of Musicology, The Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.  Adjunct Faculty.  Contract canceled due to lack of enrollment.

1999 Spring:  Istanbul Technical University, Institute of Social Sciences.  Istanbul, Turkey.  Visiting professor.  Declined.

1994-1996.  U.S. Department of State.  Washington, D.C.  Contract translator (English / Serbo-Croatian).

1992-1995.  Voice of America and Worldnet, United States Information Agency.  Washington, D.C.  Translator/Broadcaster.

1983-1987.  Radio-Television Sarajevo • Oslobodjenje (daily newspaper) • Odjek (Journal for Culture, Science and Art).  Sarajevo.  Music program broadcaster and music critic/reviewer • Conductor of the city mixed choir and high school choir.  Teslic, Yugoslavia.

1997-1998.  National Endowment for the Humanities / American Research Institute in Turkey.  Post-doctoral Fellowships for Research in Turkey.  Six months.

1996.  Moses Asch Scholarship, Washington, D.C.

1991-1995.  University of Maryland Graduate School, Baltimore.  Graduate Merit Award.

1991-1992.  Institute of Turkish Studies, Washington, D.C.  Dissertation Writing Grant.

1989.  Turkish Ministry of Transportation, Ankara.  Round-trip ticket for summer research in Turkey.

1988.  Graduate Student Association, UMBC.  Fieldwork Financial Support.

1987-1991.  University of Maryland Baltimore County.  Teaching Assistantship.

1999-present.  United States.  Synagogue Music and Jewish Rituals.  The Tiferes Yisroel Congregation, an Orthodox (Hasidic) Ashkenazi synagogue, Baltimore; other synagogues in the Baltimore metropolitan area; the Beth El Reconstructionist Synagogue, Williamsburg, Virginia.

1997-present.  United States.  Music, Liturgy, Religion.  Orthodox (American, Serbian, Russian, Greek), Catholic, and Protestant (Baptist, Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist, Pentecostal) churches in Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh), Washington, D.C., and Maryland (Baltimore, Greenbelt, Glyndon).

1997-1998.  Turkey.  Research project: "Religious Musical Trends in Contemporary Turkey: Deconstructing Orientalism." Tasavvuf and Mosque Music.  Istanbul.  December 1997 — July 1998.

1997.  United States.  Music, Liturgy, Religion.  Orthodox (American, Serbian, Russian, Greek) and  Catholic churches in Pittsburgh, PA, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, MD.

1991.  Turkey.  Mosque andTasavvuf Music.  Ankara, Erzurum, Istanbul, Kars, Konya.  January — July.

1990-1991.  United States.  Hare Krishna and the Kirtan Ritual Worship.  Catonsville and Potomac, MD, and Philadelphia, PA.

1988-1990.  Turkey.  Religious Music.  Ankara, Istanbul, Izmir, Kalecik (Ankara), Kumru (Ordu), Yumurtalik (Adana), Van, Diyarbakir.  Summers.

1987-1989.  United States.  Reading of the Qur'an.  Islamic Society of Baltimore, Masjid al-Rahmah.  Baltimore.

1987.   United States.  Beijing Opera.  David Lee's Peking Opera Troupe.  Washington, D.C.

1978-1987.  Yugoslavia.  Traditional Music of Bosnia-Hercegovina.

1999.  "Postmodern Tassavuf in Turkey: Beyond Tradition and Modernity."  Postdoctoral research report.  ARIT Newsletter 27: 5-7 (Spring 1999).

1999.  "Davison, Andrew.  Secularism and Revivalism in Turkey."  Book Review.  Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 33(2):219-220 (Winter).

1998.  "Mal d'Orientalisme i pozitivnost muzike i vjere u Turskoj."  Muzika 2(4/8): 40-82.

1997.  "Positivity of Music and Religion in Turkey."  Narodna Umjetnost 34(1):147-178 (Zagreb, Croatia).

1994.  "Reading the Book."  Book review/essay of two volumes of H. Myers' Ethnomusicology. Ethnomusicology Research Digest (ERD, Internet Forum) 172, 173, 175.

1991.  "Topical Peculiarity of Terminology in the Reading of the Kur'an in Turkey."  Turkish Music Quarterly 4(1):1-8.

1990.  "Markoff, Irene Judyth. Musical Theory, Performance and the Contemporary 'Baglama' Specialist in Turkey." Book review. Turkish Music Quarterly 3(2-3):8-11.

1989.  "Reinhard, Kurt und Ursula. Musik der Türkei."  Book review.  Yearbook for Traditional Music 21:131-133.

1985.  "Odnos metra teksta i ritma melodije - pitanje njihove podudarnosti" ("Relationships Between Meter of Text and Rhythm of Melody"). Zbornik radova 32. Kongresa SUFJ.  Sombor 1985:483-488.  Novi Sad (Yugoslavia).

Surgeons of Hearts, Callers of God: How Music, Society, Culture, and Politics Shape the ‘Godly Existence' of the Cerrahi and the Mevlevî Dervishes in Istanbul.  Book manuscript.  Projected date of finishing the first draft of the manuscript, Spring 2001

"Modernization and Religious and Music Education in Turkey from the late 19th century to the present."  An essay manuscript to be submitted for publishing.

"Postmoder 'Hip Hopping the Straight Way': How Music, Friendly Discourse, and Politics Shape Sufi ‘Godly Existence' in Istanbul."  An essay manuscript to be submitted for publishing.

1998.  "Honoring Atatürk and Not-forgetting God: How Music, Friendly Discourse, and Politics Shape Sufi ‘Godly Existence' in Istanbul."  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the SEM.  Bloomington, Indiana.

1998.  "Respecting Tradition and Keeping an Eye on Inter/Trans-national Global Trends: Tasavvuf Music in Contemporary Turkish Society, Culture, and Politics."  Invited presentation.  First International Symposium Music in Society.  Musicological Society of the Federation of Bosnia-Hercegovina.  Sarajevo, Bosnia.

1997.  "Mesk or Sitting in the Circle: Practicing Music and Maintaining Culture in Turkey."  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the MACSEM. Stony Brook, NY.

1996.  "Ethnomusicology dans le vrai: Metaphors and Allegories as Tranquilized Sleep."  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the SEM. Toronto, Canada.

1992.  "Namaz, the Ritual Muslim Worship, as a Musical Form."  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the SEM.  Seattle, Washington.

1990.  "The Issue of Terminology in the Reading of the Kur'an in Turkey."  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the MACSEM.  Newark, Delaware.

1988.  "Qur'anic Recitation in Anatolia."  Fieldwork report presented at the Annual Meeting of the SEM.  Tempe, Arizona.

1988.  "Rhythmic Structuring of the Poetic Meter in Some Folk Tunes from Bosnia-Hercegovina."  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the MACSEM.  Baltimore, Maryland.  Paper also presented at the Annual Graduate Student Research Day.  UMBC, Baltimore.

1987.  "Transcription and Analysis of Rhythm in Their Relation to Form."  Paper presented at the 10th Working Days of the Study Group for Systematization and Analysis of Folk Music, ICTM.  Freiburg i.Br., West Germany.

1986.  "Transkripcija kao deskriptivni metod pri analizi tradicionalne muzike" ("Transcription as Descriptive Method in the Analysis of Traditional Music").  Paper presented at the 33rd Congress of the SUFJ (Savez udruzenja folklorista Jugoslavije, "Union of Associations of Yugoslav Folklorists").  Pristina, Kosovo, Yugoslavia.

1985.  "Odnos metra teksta i ritma melodije - pitanje njihove podudarnosti" ("Relationships Between Meter of Text and Rhythm of Melody").  Paper presented at the 32nd Congress of the SUFJ.  Sombor, Vojvodina, Jugoslavija.

Other Music Writings and Creative Media Work

1986.  That Wonderful Monster of Time.  Music Film on Croatian composer and author Dubravko Dettoni.  Arsa Jovanovic, director.  Dane Kusic, co-author and script writer.  TV Sarajevo.  VHS video, 45 min.

1983-1987.  Author of more than 60 music critiques, reviews, interviews and other music articles in Yugoslav daily newspapers and journals.  Author of more than 100 music programs and more than dozen music program cycles in musicology/ethnomusicology, interviews and reviews.  Radio and Television Sarajevo.

1999.  Fulbright Interview Committee Member.  Peabody Conservatory of Music,  Johns Hopkins University.  Baltimore

1999.  Reviewer of an ethnomusicology book manuscript for The McGraw-Hill Companies

1998.  Peer Reviewer for Yearbook for traditional Music

1997.  Peer Reviewer for Ethnomusicology Online (EOL)

1994-Present.  Member, Ethics Committee, Society for Ethnomusicology

1997.  Member, Faculty Advisory Board, Asian Arts and Culture Center (AACC).  Towson University.  Towson, Maryland

Turkish: kanun, zither, kudüm, kettle-drum, def and bendir, tambourines
Balinese: jublag and jegogan, gamelan instruments
Western: piano
1987-1992: UMBC Balinese Gamelan Ensemble.  Mantle Hood, director.
1987-1989: UMBC Turkish Music Ensemble.  Karl Signell, director.

English, Serbo-Croatian, Turkish -- comprehensive knowledge

Ottoman Turkish, Bulgarian, French, German, Italian, Russian -- reading / writing / translating knowledge

Arabic, Farsi, Greek, Hebrew, Latin -- reading and some translating knowledge