She completed her PhD in ethnomusicology at Harvard in 2013 and was a 2013-2015 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities and Hyperstudio Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research explores 20th- and 21st-century musics of East Asia, with particular emphasis on popular song, narrativity, and cultural politics in the Chinese-speaking world. Currently at work on a book about Taiwan’s rap scene, Dr. Schweig has received fellowships from the Asian Cultural Council, Whiting Foundation, Fulbright-Hays, and the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard. Her article “Hoklo Hip-Hop: Resignifying Rap as Local Narrative Tradition in Taiwan,” published in CHINOPERL: Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature, won the 2015 Rulan Chao Pian Prize from the Association for Chinese Music Research.