Megan Moran, PhD
Megan comes to Brandeis from the College of the Holy Cross, where she has been a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Music. With a BA in music from the College of the Holy Cross, a MA in historical musicology from Boston University, and a PhD in musicology from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Megan's substantive expertise spans music, the arts and the digital humanities.
Megan brings to COMPACT a deep commitment to innovative, equitable and ethical community-engaged research, teaching and creative projects.
As a professor at Holy Cross, Megan participated in the Scholarship in Action program, developing a class that helped first-year students immerse themselves in Worcester's hip hop culture and supporting faculty colleagues with an interest in community engaged pedagogy. She co-founded the Worcester chapter of Hip Hop Congress, which seeks to "bring positive social change through hip hop education, self-expression, and community-building activities" and celebrates "the heritage of hip hop as a form of Black music," including through its Living Local Archive.
In 2021, Worcester Magazine named Megan a "hometown hero" for "bringing positive social change to the streets of our city through the thing she loves most: Music."