Meredith Schweig

Meredith Schweig is an Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Emory University's Department of Music. Her work focuses on 20th/21st century East Asian popular musics, particularly Taiwanese rap's intersection with gender, narrative, and post-authoritarian cultural politics. She holds Harvard University degrees (BA 2003, MA 2009, PhD 2013).

Research highlights include her award-winning book Renegade Rhymes: Rap Music, Narrative, and Knowledge in Taiwan (2022), and her emerging Teresa Teng pop iconography project. She has held prestigious fellowships including Fulbright Senior Scholar (Taiwan 2020-21) and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT (2013-15).

Her articles analyze topics like masculinity politics in Taiwanese rap, Hoklo hip-hop as local tradition, and diasporic musical negotiations. Schweig has received multiple prizes including the Marcia Herndon Prize and Jaap Kunst Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology.

Teaching includes ethnomusicology fundamentals, ethnographic methods, and global hip-hop studies. She serves as affiliated faculty in East Asian Studies and led the Association for Chinese Music Research (2017-2020). Current projects explore vocal agency in Teresa Teng's transmedia legacy and sensory approaches to music studies.