Campus Directory

Division Arts Division

Department/College/Unit Music Department

Title Associate Professor

Affiliation Faculty

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Humanities Division
Feminist Studies Department

Faculty Type Regular Faculty

Areas of Expertise Ethnomusicology
Ethnography
Asian Music
Gender Studies
Women's Studies

Primary Office Location Music Center
286

Additional Location(s) Music Center 286

Mail Stop Music Center

Biography, Education and Training

B.M., Peabody Conservatory, Institute of the Johns Hopkins University
M.Mus., Goldsmiths College, University of London
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Summary of Expertise

Tanya Merchant is an ethnomusicologist whose research interests include music’s intersection with issues of nationalism, gender, identity, and the post-colonial situation.

Research Interests

With a geographical focus on Central Asia and the former Soviet Union, she has conducted fieldwork in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Russia. She is an avid performer on both the Uzbek dutar and the baroque bassoon, and has given concerts with ensembles in the U.S., England, and Uzbekistan. Her recent publications include articles on Uzbek popular, folk, and traditional musics, which appear in journals such as Cahiers de Musiques Traditionnelles, and Image and Narrative.