JOHN CALDWELL - Resource Person - I

JOHN CALDWELL UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL john.caldwell@unc.edu asiaweb@email.unc.edu Current Position: Lecturer, Hindi-Urdu, Dept. of Asian Studies Graduate Student in Musicology, Music Department Education: A.B., Russian History & Literature, Harvard University M.M., Bassoon Performance, University of Michigan M.B.A., Yale University Ph.D. Musicology, UNC Chapel Hill (in progress)

                               

Biography:

John Caldwell is a Ph.D. student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the U.S.A. He is also currently Fulbright-Nehru Research Fellow in India, affiliated with Jamia Milia Islamia in Delhi.  He is working on his dissertation entitled “Us Paar Ke Naghme: music crossing the Indo-Pak border.”  John's other research interests include South Asian film and media culture, comparative musicology, second language learning and technology, and poetry and poetics. He is fluent in Hindi-Urdu and teaches both languages at the University of North Carolina.  With Dr. Afroz Taj, John has co-directed the annual UNC Summer in India Study Abroad Program since 1999. In his spare time he translates the ghazals of Mirza Ghalib into English.