Education:
Ph.D., Ethnomusicology, University of Colorado Boulder, 2018
B.A., Religious Studies and Music, Minor in Tibetan Language, Naropa University, 2013
Profile:
Mason Brown received his PhD in ethnomusicology from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2018. He also holds a double BA in music and religious studies from Naropa University. He completed his dissertation on alliance and identity in the Tibetan music of Nepal on a Fulbright-Hays fellowship. His research interests include identity, migration, transnational modernities, religious ideology, global indigeneity, and the industrial revolution. He is a performer of traditional Irish, Appalachian, Near-Eastern, Tibetan and Nepali music, a singer-songwriter, and is currently an adjunct lecturer at CU Boulder.