Megan Rancier

Lecturer (Fall, 2011)
Research interests: Central Asia, music and national identity, musical instruments, music and protest
Ph.D. Ethnomusicology, UCLA; B.Mus. Bucknell University
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Megan Rancier researches issues of music and national identity in Post-Soviet Central Asia. Her dissertation focused on the "biography" of a Kazakh fiddle (qyl-qobyz) and its implications for Kazakh nation-building in contemporary Kazakhstan. She has contributed articles and reviews to Popular Music and Society (2008) and the Yearbook for Traditional Music (2008). In addition to teaching, Rancier is a performer of Bulgarian and Albanian music and an administrator at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.