Mehrenegar Rostami is an ethnomusicologist with interdisciplinary research interests in anthropology and political philosophy. She received her PhD in ethnomusicology from UCLA in 2023. Her research engages with the dynamics of human mobility, socio-economic developments, and politico-cultural identity formations in inter-and multicultural environments. She has conducted extensive fieldwork research on international music festivals in Iran, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Austria, Germany, and the United States. Focusing on traditional and popular musics of Central Asia and the Middle East, she examines in her dissertation the modern manifestations of the Silk Road phenomenon and the ways in which this phenomenon has influenced the formation of international music festivals in the age of globalization and neoliberal capitalism. In 2017, she published “Silent City: A Commemoration of the Halabja’s Tragedy” in Music and Politics. Her translational essays have appeared in Māhname Honar-e Musiqi [The Art of Music] and she has presented her research at national and international conferences throughout North America, Europe, Iran, and Central Asia. She has also served as a reviews editor of Ethnomusicology Review. As a santur (hammered dulcimer) player, she has worked in Iranian, European, and North American scenes.