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Kathryn Metz

(she/her/hers)

  • Director of Musical Studies
  • Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Administrative Coordinator
  • Senior Lecturer

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Biography

Kathryn Metz (she/her) is Director of Musical Studies, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Administrative Coordinator, and Senior Lecturer. Prior to these roles, Kathryn served as Humanities Department Chair at Hawken Upper School in Gates Mills, Ohio (2021-2022); Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at 91直播 Conservatory (2017-2021); and Manager of Community and Family Programs at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland Ohio (2008-2017).  

Kathryn holds her Ph.D. and M.M. in Ethnomusicology from the University of Texas at Austin (2010) and her B.M. in Ethnomusicology from Bowling Green State University (2001). Her doctoral research focused on popular music in the urban Amazon of Peru and her current research interests center on pop music pedagogy, music and social justice in Cleveland's music and arts communities, and education equity.

Spring 2026

Roots of Rock 鈥 CAST 213

Musical Studies Honors II 鈥 CMUS 401

Fall 2026

The History of Rock: Race, Class, Gender, Place 鈥 CAST 106

History of Rock: Race, Class, Gender, Place 鈥 MUSY 106

Music Honors I 鈥 CMUS 400

2021- 鈥淎pply What? Activate Ethnomusicology from the Beginning.鈥 in Beyond The Field: Public Roles and Practices for Ethnomusicologists, Eds. Le贸n Garcia Corona and Kathleen Wiens. New York: Oxford University Press, September 2020     

2020- with Jason Hanley. 鈥淭he Piano Man鈥檚 Artifacts鈥 in We Didn鈥檛 Start the Fire: Billy Joel and Popular Music Studies. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, March 2020

2020- 鈥淗ow popular music scholarship can inform community engagement & K-12 education鈥 in Journal of World Popular Music. Vol. 7.1, June 2020

2015- 鈥溌umbia! 隆Chicha! 隆鈥淧andilla鈥! M煤sica pop en la Amazon铆a urbana.鈥 In Ra煤l Romero (ed.) M煤sica popular y sociedad en el Per煤 contempor谩neo. (Lima, Peru: Instituto de Etnomusicolog铆a 鈥 IDE Pontiicia Universidad Cat贸lica del Per煤)

2013- 鈥淧andillar in the Jungle: Regionalism and Tecno-Cumbia in Amazonian Peru.鈥 In Cumbia! Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre, edited by H茅ctor Fern谩ndez L鈥橦oeste and Pablo Vila (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press), 2013

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