Meryl Krieger, Ph.D.

About Meryl

Dr. J. Meryl Krieger (IAC/NMC 80-82, IAA 83-84, IAC St 85) is an ethnomusicologist and pedagogy specialist with a research specialty in career development. Her current work as a senior instructional designer in the at the University of Pennsylvania takes this focus to Penn's new online degree program for working adults building in career development both as a component and a goal. As a career consultant, Meryl has created and delivered workshops for the Society for Ethnomusicology since 2016 on a range of career and professional development topics. Recent publications include a book chapter on how ethnomusicology graduate students can take charge of and explore their professional and career goals (2021), in using online learning to build diverse and accessible courses (2022).

In addition to her Ph.D. in Folklore & Ethnomusicology from Indiana University Bloomington, Meryl has degrees in piano pedagogy and performance, communications, anthropology, and music theory. Her research on professional development, adult learning, and technology change grew out of her training as an instrumental music teacher, her work as a career coach, and her dissertation research into contemporary American musicians' ways of adapting to technological changes in recording studios and the American commercial music industry.