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2015
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Elise Anderson
Xinjiang Arts Institute
78 Tuanjie Rd.
Urumqi, Xinjiang, China 830046
+86 13139915367 (mobile)
andersem@umail.iu.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (dual) in Folklore and Ethnomusicology and Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana
University (IU), Bloomington, IN, expected 2016
Passed Folklore and Ethnomusicology qualifying exams With Distinction, Jan. 2012;
passed Central Eurasian Studies qualifying exams, Aug. 2012
Dissertation title: Uyghur Arts, History, and Heritage in Contemporary Xinjiang
M.A. in Central Eurasian Studies, IU, 2011
M.A. in Folklore and Ethnomusicology with a concentration in Ethnomusicology, IU,
2009
Thesis: Intertextual Connections: The Construction of Amannisaxan as a Musical
Culture Hero
B.Musical Arts in Voice, Oklahoma Baptist University (OBU), Summa cum Laude and
With Honors, Shawnee, OK, May 2006
Minor: Anthropology; Honors thesis: The Muqam in Modern Uyghur Life
Non-degree Study
Muqam Research and Performance, Xinjiang Arts Institute, Urumqi, China, Spring 2014
present
Language Certificate, CET Program in Intensive Mandarin, Harbin Institute of
Technology, Harbin, China, Fall 2012
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Ethnomusicology; historical ethnomusicology; ethnographic research; comparative
methodologies; intellectual histories; genre; performance; intangible cultural heritage;
Uyghurs, Xinjiang; minorities in China; Central Asia; mshrp; muqam/maqom/maqam
traditions in China and Central Asia; dastan (epic poetry); tot (sketch comedy); maqaltmsil (proverbs); translation
MAJOR RESEARCH GRANTS
201314
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA)
Fellowship (11 months in China, 1 month in Sweden), $49,251
201213
U.S. Fulbright Student Grant, International Institute for Education (China)
2012
Fulbright Critical Language Enhancement Award (Mandarin)
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2014
ztrk Scholarship for Female Graduate Students, rmchi, China
201314
Dorson Dissertation Award, Department of Folklore and
Ethnomusicology, IU
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What the IAUNRC Has Meant to Me, Inner Asian and Uralic National
Resource Center Newsletter, Indiana University, Apr. 2014
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Musical Research, School of Advanced Study; the School of Oriental and African
Studies; and the Aga Khan Music Initiative, University of London, May 2012
Making Minzu Heritage in Contemporary Xinjiang, Association for Asian Studies
annual meeting, Toronto, Mar. 2012
The Irony of the Intangible, Central Eurasian Studies Society annual conference, The
Ohio State University, Columbus, Sept. 2011
Singing the Homeland: Music and Musicians in Uyghur Diaspora Communities,
Central Eurasian Studies Conference, Bloomington, Feb. 2009
Amannisahan as a Symbol for a Modern Uyghur Nation, Association for Asian Studies
annual meeting, Atlanta, GA, Apr. 2008
Performing Memory, Recreating the Present: A Performative Approach to
Understanding Modern Uyghur Identity, Midwest Chapter of the Society for
Ethnomusicology, Terre Haute, IN, Apr. 2007
The Muqam in Modern Uyghur Life, University of Oklahoma Honors College
Undergraduate Research Day, Norman, OK, Apr. 2006
A Unique Cultural Identifier: The Muqam in Modern Uyghur Life, Middle East and
Central Asia Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, Sept. 2005
INVITED LECTURES
An Introduction to Uyghur Music, Where There Be Dragons, Urumqi, China, Jul. 2015
Research Report: Uyghur Arts, History, and Heritage in Contemporary Xinjiang, the
Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center Brown Bag Lecture Series, IU, Nov.
2013
Pop Goes the Uyghur!: Uyghur Popular Music in Contemporary Xinjiang, the Summer
Workshop in Slavic, East European, and Central Asian Languages (SWSEEL), IU, Jul.
2012
Networking in Central Asia, Research Roundtable of SWSEEL, IU, Jun. 2012
Making Minzu Heritage in Xinjiang (one-hour version), Sinor Research Institute for
Inner Asian Studies Lecture Series, IU, Mar. 2012
Music and Musical Instruments in Central Asia, a lecture given to CEUS R199, Central
Asia: Cultures and Customs, instructor Dr. Gulnisa Nazarova, Nov. 2011, Dec. 2010,
Dec. 2009
The Politics of Expressive Culture: The Case of the Uyghur Twelve Muqams,
ANTH E200: Social and Cultural Anthropology, IU, instructor Kimberly J. Marshall,
Nov. 2011
Led graduate seminar discussion of Theodore Levins The Hundred Thousand Fools of
God, CEUS R533: Cultures and Civilizations of Xinjiang, IU, instructor Dr. Gardner
Bovingdon, Mar. 2011
Arutunian and Prokofiev in a Mozart Year, Pre-Concert Lecture of the annual
Concerto-Aria Concert, OBU, Feb. 2006
The Influence of Folk Tradition on Rachmaninoff and Vaughan Williams, Pre-Concert
Lecture of the annual Concerto-Aria Concert, OBU, Feb. 2005
TRANSLATION
2014present Uyghur-English Translator, China Nationalities Press (Minzu chubanshe,
Elise Anderson
2015
Updated 10 August
Elise Anderson
2015
Updated 10 August