STEPHANIE NG
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan, Musicology/Ethnomusicology
M.A., University of Science Malaysia, Ethnomusicology
Performers Diploma of Licentiateship, London College of Music at Thames Valley University
Bachelor of Communications (Honors), University of Science Malaysia
Office: 203 Crowley Hall
Telephone: (574) 631-
6528
Email: sng1@nd.edu
Stephanie Ng received her doctorate in Musicology and Ethnomusicology from the University of Michigan in April 2006. Her dissertation examines the role of Filipino entertainers as purveyors of global culture and music in Asia. Her research interest include the music of Southeast Asia and China, and the Filipino, Chinese and Indian diasporas, as well as western popular music, fusion music and music in advertising. She has presented papers at national and international conferences such as the Symposium of the International Musicological Society in Melbourne, Australia, and the Seventh International Conference of Philippine Studies in Leiden, the Netherlands. This past November, Ng presented a paper at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Ethnomusicology in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her essay “Performing the ‘Filipino’ at The Crossroads: Filipino Bands in Five-Star Hotels Throughout Asia” was published in the Modern Drama journal by the University of Toronto Press in 2005.
Ng has been the recipient of several awards, including the Rackham Dissertation Fellowship (2005), the Rackham Humanities Research Candidacy Award Fellowship (2003), and the Regents Fellowship (2000). She also directed the choir at St. Xavier's Institution and served as organist at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Penang, Malaysia.
