Dr. Megan Murph is the Director of the Budds Center for American Music Studies and an Instructor of Musicology at Mizzou. Her course topics include Missouri Music, Ecomusicology, Music of the United States, Women in Music, Global Popular Music Traditions, African American Music, Western Music History, and Mindfulness for Musicians. 

As the Director of the Budds Center, Megan’s role is to uphold the center’s mission statement through organizing outreach programs around American/Missouri Music, overseeing publications and recording projects, managing the endowment and budget, cataloging and maintaining the center’s collection, supervising graduate and undergraduate assistants, cultivating a presence online and within the community, overseeing PR/promotion of the center, and facilitating communication with the center’s Board of Directors.

Megan's research primarily focuses on the life and work of Max Neuhaus while delving into the eco-political implications of listening. Megan has published her work on Neuhaus as well as presented various research papers at the American Musicological Society (AMS), Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM), Society for American Music (SAM), International Association for Studies in Popular Music (IASPM), AMS South-Central and Southern Chapter meetings,  Music and the Moving Image Conference, Darkwater Women in Music Festival, Symposium on Yoga Traditions and Sacred Sound Practices, Sounding out the Space: International Conference on the Spatiality of Sound, and the Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference.

Megan completed her Ph.D. in Musicology and Ethnomusicology at the University of Kentucky, Master of Music at Louisiana State University, and Bachelor of Arts at Brevard College. She is currently the conference manager of the Society for American Music and was the past co-chair of the AMS Ecomusicology Study Group (2020-2022), Society for American Music’s Program Committee (2019), and co-chair of the SAM Experimental Music Interest Group (2017-2019. Before her position at Missouri, Megan taught at the University of South Carolina Upstate and local community colleges.