Dr. Carolyn Ramzy is Assistant Professor of Music at Carleton University. An ethnomusicologist whose broad research interests include questions of music and belonging, citizenship, and religious nationalism., she specializes in musics of the Middle East and specifically studies the performative politics of belonging among Egypt’s Coptic Christians. Her current research explores how the popular Christian genre of taratil circulate in satellite and digital technologies as powerful technologies to mold Egyptian Coptic national and pious citizenry in the twenty-first century. Prior to her time at Carleton, she was a fellow at the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE). Dr. Ramzy has also consulted with the U.S. Library of Congress Music Division and served as a Coptic music specialist for the Library of Congress World Digital Library.
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