Gathering and Festivals

• Gurus, New Age, and Transformational Festivals  
• Olympics, World Fairs, and other displays of National Identities

Music in the Jewish-American 20th Century

• Jews and the Mandolin, with a particular interest in Bluegrass as an evolution of Jewish participation in cultural capital
• Jews in Country Music, with a particular interest in the Jewish Rodeo Tailors (N. Turk, Nudie Cohn, Rodeo Ben)
• Music of Jewish Summer Camps and Youth Movements, with a particular interest in recorded physical media during the 1960s and 1970s
• Printed media of 20th century Jewish institutions, with a particular interest in World Over Magazine, a semiweekly children’s publication from the 40s through the 70s 
• Brandeis Bardin Institute

Music, Memory, and Meaning

• Music as spatial geography
• The role of music in defining community identities following collective disaster, migration, and Diaspora
• The role of media in defining regions through collective imagination and tourism

Los Angeles and California History

• 1984 Olympic Arts Festival
• The Grand Avenue Project and the reimagining of Los Angeles institutional culture following the 84 Olympics
• The Bakersfield Sound and the effects of industrialization on the ecology of the Central Valley

Quaker Design Principles

Technology and Counterculture

• Self-Hosting and Geurilla Archiving
• Media activism and critical studies
• Early hacktivist culture
• Creative Commons and Open Source Culture