Benjamin Pachter's Mellon Fellowship Travels
Ethnomusicology PhD candidate Benjamin Pachter is currently in the midst of a busy travel schedule while conducting fieldwork for his dissertation. A current recipient of the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Pachter has rarely been in one place for very long, traveling to a wide variety of places as he conducts research on the transnational nature of contemporary Japanese taiko performance and how this has affected conceptions of tradition.