Arts Division
Graduate Student
Graduate
Music Center
Audio engineering, technology, collaboration, tabla, Hindustani classical, jazz, drum set
2023 Digital Fellowship, “The Song Lines of Arnold Bake,” Archive and Ethnomusicological Research Center, Gurgaon, India
2023 US Department of Education Hindi Language Fellowship, AIIS, Jaipur, India
2023 CAHSS Student Research Award, University of Denver
2023 Lamont Student Professional Development Fund, University of Denver
2022 FLAS- Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Hindi), Madison, WI
2019 Magna Cum Laude, Ball State University
2015 STEM scholarship, Ball State University
2015 Presidential Scholarship, Ball State University
2023 “Learning to Listen to Music.” Performance Lecture and Subsequent Presentation. Manipal University, Jaipur, India. Oct. 31.
2022 “Hindutva Pop Violence: Laxmi Dubey and the Militarization of the Dhol-Tasha.” For the panel “Between ‘Elite’ and ‘Vernacular’: Understanding Hindu Communities as Sites of Cultural Production through Sound, Performance, Text. Annual Conference on South Asia. Madison, WI. October 20.
2022 “Audio Production and Plot.” South Asian Summer Language Institute Conference. Madison, WI. July 9.
2022 “Meaning and Audio Mixing in Bollywood.” University of Denver Colloquium. Denver, CO. May 20.
2022 “Masala Mixing: Audio Production in the Bollywood Film Sholay.” Annual Meeting of Mountain-Plains Music Library Association. May 19 (online).
Thom, Tyler, "The Elephant in the Baithak: Tabla and Audio Technological Discourse" (2024). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2441.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/2441