Meghan Drury

Meghan Drury is a first year Ph.D. student in American Studies, and her interests are centered around cultural connections, Arab and Jewish American identities, popular music, and performance studies. She received an MA in ethnomusicology from UC Riverside in 2006, with a thesis about intercultural relationships in a Middle Eastern music ensemble in Los Angeles. Meghan hopes to expand this project to examine the cultural and political implications of other artistic realms such as Arab and Jewish hip hop and bellydance. Her secondary interests include whiteness studies, critical theory, and the politics of globalization.

mdrury@gwmail.gwu.edu