Ethnomusicology, recent graduate.
Title of Dissertation: Exploring the Impact of Sufi Music for Reconciliation Between East and West Punjab.

See also

• http://religion.concordia.ab.ca/arsh-khaira/
• http://www.arshkhaira.com/

Following a PhD in energy and climate systems modeling that led to a successful career touring the US, Europe and South Korea as a guest scientist, Deepak switched gears to enter the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta as a postdoctoral fellow in 2013, only to change course dramatically to follow his passion towards admittance in the Department of Music’s doctoral Ethnomusicology program in 2014.  [Read more]

Personal website: http://www.deepakparamashivan.com/

Starting a PhD course focussed on the history of ancient Indian phonetics (शिक्षा), using sources in the Sanskrit language.

Jane Allred is a Ph.D student in History, with a special interest in philology and the history of ideas. She is especially interested in the grammatical tradition of South Asia (Sanskrit: vyākaraṇa) and the history of the study of language. Her thesis research will concern grammars of Kannaḍa in medieval and early modern Karnāṭaka in South India. She holds an MA in Philosophy from the University of Hawai’i.

In the third year of a PhD course focused on the history of Ayurvedic medicine and Indian science, working with sources in the Sanskrit language.

Trained for years in classical voice, he has more than ten years background in classical music teaching and performance. He graduated in music management from University of Agder, Norway and did a MA in Classical voice at Tribhuvan University, Nepal.

As a Guest Music Teacher, he was appointed to teach World Music in 2013 and worked with Professor Bjron Ole Rasch for two years at the University of Agder, Norway and has also served seven years as teaching assistant of folk music at Department of Music, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. Currently, he is strongly involved in community projects involving music teaching and learning. His main areas of research are music sustainability, cultural continuity, music, health, and community wellbeing.

Passionate about traditional music and cultures, in 2016 he shifted his area of study to ethnomusicology and started PhD at the Department of Music, University of Alberta.