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Bruce Gleason,
Associate
Professor of Graduate Music Education at the University of St.
Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, is the founding editor of
Research and Issues in Music Education. He holds a B. A. in
music from Crown College, a B.S. and M.A. in music education from
the University of Minnesota, and a Ph.D. in music education from
the University of Iowa. He has taught all levels of vocal and
instrumental music from kindergarten through graduate school, and
served as a euphonium and trombone player and vocalist with the
298th U.S. Army Band of the Berlin Brigade from 1989-1991. His
research in band and music education history has been published in
Music Educators Journal, Journal of Band Research,
Renaissance, Winds, TUBA Journal, BDGuide, Bulletin of Historical
Research in Music Education, The Irish American Post, and
The Journal of the Military Music Society. His work in
pedagogy and comprehensive musicianship has been published in
Kjos Band News,The Instrumentalist, School Band and Orchestra,
and Contributions to Music Education. From 1998 to 2000 he
served as a contributing editor for Christianity and the Arts
magazine with his column, "Hymns Revisited." His present research
focuses on chronicling the tradition of horse-mounted cavalry
bands, which has taken him to the United Kingdom, France, Belgium,
Austria, Denmark, Sweden and the Sultanate of Oman. He has
presented this work for the MENC History Special Research Interest
Group, and the Internationale Gesellschaft zur Erforschung und
Förderung der Blasmusik (IGEB). On weekends, Dr. Gleason can
be found singing baritone with the a cappella quartet, The
Fairlanes.
Deborah Blair is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Undergraduate Music Education at Oakland University, where she teaches educational psychology and music learning, choral music methods, elementary general music methods and supervises student teachers. Dr. Blair also teaches a wide variety of graduate classes during spring and summer sessions. A qualitative researcher, her interests include the application of constructivist learning theory in general music, choral, and special needs classrooms, and the implications of constructivist learning theory for in-service and pre-service teacher education. Dr. Blair's research has been published in the International Journal of Education and the Arts, Mountain Lake Reader, Michigan Music Educator, Music Educators Journal and Visions of Research in Music Education. In addition to her work for RIME, Dr. Blair also serves as reviewer for the International Journal of Education and the Arts. Dr. Blair holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Calvin College, a Master of Arts in Choral Conducting from Eastern Illinois University, and a Ph.D. in Music Education from Oakland University. Beth Bolton is Chair of Music Education and Therapy, Esther Boyer College of Music, Temple University, where she teaches graduate courses in music education and guides graduate research. She holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Ft. Hays State University, a Master of Music from Emporia State University, and a Ph.D. from Temple University. Dr. Bolton conducts research in early childhood music development and is a senior author on the Jump Right In: Music Curriculum Series. She also is the author of Music Play, The Childsong Collection 1 and 2, Musicianship, The Early Childhood Song andd Chant Book. Dr. Bolton has presented research and education seminars in Italy, Lithuania, the Dominican Republic, Australia, and New Zealand. This year she will present lectures at several universities in Israel. Timothy S. Brophy, Assistant Professor of Music Education at the University of Florida, holds a Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, a Master of Music degree with a concentration in Orff Schulwerk from the University of Memphis, and a Ph.D. in Music Education from the University of Kentucky. He has taught elementary music in both public and private schools in Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee. As an elementary music teacher, Dr. Brophy was awarded an Ashland Teacher Achievement Award (1996), a Memphis Rotary Club Rotary Award for Teacher Excellence, and was the first elementary music teacher to be honored at the Disney American Teacher Awards in Los Angeles in 1998. Dr. Brophy's public school elementary choirs have appeared in the White House four times and have recorded six albums, including Silver Burdett and Ginn's Celebrate Tennessee! collection (2000)..
R. Shayne Cofer, Associate Professor Director of Bands and Chair of the Department of Music and Dance Program at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, earned a B.M. degree in music education at The University of Idaho and a M.A. and Ph.D. in music education at The University of Iowa. Prior to teaching at the university level, Dr. Cofer taught K-12 instrumental and vocal music in Northern Idaho. His research has been published in the Journal for Research in Music Education, Southeastern Journal of Music Education, School Band and Orchestra, and MENC's Teaching Music.. Colleen Conway is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Music Education at The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She holds bachelors and masters degrees in horn performance and music education from the Eastman School of Music and a doctorate in music education from Teachers College, Columbia University. Her scholarly interests include instrumental music education, preservice music teacher education, qualitative research, professional development for the inservice music teacher, and the mentoring and induction of beginning music teachers. She has presented at national and international conferences (including MENC, The Midwest Clinic, AERA, and ISME) and has published over 50 articles on these topics in all of the major music education journals (including the Journal of Research in Music Education and the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education). She is currently on the editorial boards of the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, the Journal of Music Teacher Education, Music Education Research International, Advances in Music Education Research, and Update: Applications of Research in Music Education. Dr. Conway serves as program chair of the Music Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association. Her edited book entitled "Great Beginning for Music Teachers: A Guide to Mentoring and Induction" was released in October 2003 by MENC. "Handbook for the Beginning Music Teacher" by Colleen M. Conway and Thomas M. Hodgman was released by GIA Publications in January 2006. Lori Custoderoo, Assistant Professor of Music Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, holds a Bachelor of Music in music theory and piano from the University of Redlands, a M.A. in music theory from California State University and a D.M.A. in music education from the University of Southern California. Over 20 years of experience with young children, parents, and teachers in a variety of musical settings has informed her research, which has focused on children from infancy through preadolescence, and adults as musicians, teachers, and parents. She has presented and published on issues of musical challenge, engagement, and meaning in classrooms, playgrounds, and family settings; recent titles include "Passing the Cultural Torch: Musical Experience and Musical Parenting of Infants" (Journal for Research in Music Education),"Perspectives on Challenges: A Longitudinal Investigation of Children's Music Learning" (Arts and Learning), and "Seeking Challenge, Finding Skill: Flow Experience in Music Education" (Arts Education and Policy Review). Formerly chair of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association's Research Advisory Review Panel and Co-Chair of the Music Educators National Conference's Special Research Interest Group for Early Childhood, she currently serves as chair for the International Society for Music Education's Early Childhood Commission. James F. Daugherty, Associate Professor in the Division of Music Education and Music Therapy at the University of Kansas, directs the Concert Choir, and teaches in the areas of choral pedagogy and conducting, history and philosophy of music education, research methods, aesthetics, and music technology. He holds a Ph.D. from Florida State University, and master's degrees from Columbia University (M.A.), Union Theological Seminary in New York (M.Div.), and the University of Virginia (M.Ed.). He completed undergraduate concentrations in vocal performance and philosophy at Maryville College (Tennessee), and received a certificate in voice from the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Berlin, Germany. He also serves on the editorial board of the Journal for Research in Music Education, and is editor of the International Journal of Research in Choral Singing. Laura Ferguson is an Associate Professor of Music Education and is Coordinator of Music Education at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. A native of Illinois, she earned a BM in music education from Millikin University in Decatur Illinois, and the MME and EdD from the University of Illinois.
David Hargreaves, Professor of Child Development, is the Director of the Centre for International Research in Music Education, and Froebel Research Fellow at the University of Surrey Roehampton. He is also Visiting Professor of Research in Music Education at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and Visiting Professor at the Inter-University Institute of Macau. He was Reader in Psychology at the University of Leicester between 1992-8. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and has held Visiting Research Fellowships at the University of Illinois at Chicago and at Florida State University, USA.
David G. Hebert is an Assistant Professor with the graduate program in music education at Boston University School of Music. An instrumental music educator and ethnomusicologist, he earned a PhD under Patricia Shehan Campbell at University of Washington. Dr. Hebert has taught for Seattle Public Schools, as well as internationally for Moscow State University, Tokyo Gakugei University, and Te Wananga O Aotearoa. His forthcoming book describes Japanese wind bands and the world's largest music competition. His cross-cultural research interests include creativity, transculturation, competition, and policy in music education.
Mike Hewitt is a specialist in instrumental music education and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in this area at the University of Maryland. Additionally he supervises clinical field experiences in K-12 settings, directs graduate research, and advises the student MENC chapter. Prior to joining the faculty at Maryland, he was a band director at the elementary and secondary levels in the states of New York, Michigan, and Arizona.
Sondra Wieland Howe is an independent scholar in Minnesota. She holds an A.B. in music from Wellesley College, A.M.T. in music education from Radcliffe College, and an M.A. in musicology and a Ph.D. in music education from the University of Minnesota. She is an independent piano teacher in Wayzata, Minnesota, and the musicologist for the Minnesota High School Music Listening Contest. Her research area is the history of music education and women in music and she is the author of Luther Whiting Mason: International Music Educator (Harmonie Park Press, 1997), book chapters, and articles in the Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, Journal of Research in Music Education, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, and the Philosophy of Music Education Review. Estelle R. Jorgensen, Professor of Music Education in the School of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington, teaches graduate courses in the foundations of music education. Editor of the Philosophy of Music Education Review http://iupjournals.org/pmer, founding chair of the Philosophy Special Research Interest Group of MENC, author of In Search of Music Education (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997) and Transforming Music Education (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003) and frequent contributor to leading research journals in music education internationally, she has spoken and written about a broad array of themes in the philosophy of music education. Australian born, she has taught music in the school grades in Canada, at McGill University, Montreal, and lectured in Finland, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Australia. She has led and contributed to several international symposia in the philosophy of music education held in Bloomington, USA (1990), Toronto, Canada (1994), Los Angeles, USA (1997), and Birmingham, UK (2000). She is currently co-chair of the International Society for the Philosophy of Music Education. Among the various honors for her contributions to the philosophy of music education, she has been named a fellow of the Philosophy of Education Society, and is the recipient of an honorary doctorate in music from Andrews University, USA. Dr. Jorgensen holds a B.A. from Newcastle University, New South Wales, Australia, a M.M. from Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan, and a Ph.D. in music education from the University of Calgary, Canada (1976) Barbara Lewis, Associate Professor at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, North Dakota, holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University in music education and has taught K-8 general music in the public schools of Maryland as well as graduate and undergraduate music education courses at the college level. Her research has appeared in several journals including Psychology of Music, Journal of Research in Music Education, Update, the Southeastern Journal of Music Education, and Philosophy of Music Education Review. Dr. Lewis has recently edited a book published by MENC titled Syllabi for Music Methods Coursess. Herbert Marshall, Assistant professor at Baldwin-Wallace College, holds degrees in music education from Michigan State University, Syracuse University, and Temple University. After teaching instrumental and general music in the public schools in upstate New York for 11 years, he served on the faculties of Temple University and Georgia State University, and now teaches undergraduate and graduate courses and advises research at Michigan. His research interests and clinic activities focus on music acquisition, general and instrumental music methodology, multicultural music, urban education, and reflective teaching practice, as well as action research, which resulted in the development of a community music program at Adrian College for research in early childhood music instruction and acquisition. Dr. Marshall serves frequently as a clinician, consultant, adjudicator, and conductor, and teaches workshops for the Gordon Institute of Music Learning. His musical and educational activities on four continents have prompted a lifelong interest in studying and sharing diverse musical styles and means of transmission throughout the world. Gary McPherson, Professor of Music Education at the University of Illinois, studied music education at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, before completing a Master of Music Education degree at Indiana University and a Ph.D. at the University of Sydney. He is president elect of the International Society for Music Education, and a former national president of the Australian Society for Music Education. His published research addresses visual, aural, and creative aspects of musical performance in young developing musicians. Dr. McPherson is currently on the editorial boards of all major flagship journals in music education, as well as being editor for Research Studies in Music Education. As a trumpeter, he has performed with several of Australia's leading ensembles. Alison Reynolds earned her B.M.E .from Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth, and her M.M. and Ph.D. from Temple University. She has taught elementary general music in Texas and Connecticut; early childhood music in Connecticut, Ohio, Mississippi, and Pennsylvania; and has taught at Ashland University in Ohio and The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. She is now Associate Professor of Music Education in the Boyer College of Music and Department of Dance at Temple University, where she teaches undergraduate courses in theories of music learning, elementary general music methods, supervises student teachers, and advises the Collegiate Music Educators National Conference Chapter. At the graduate level, she teaches research methods, music learning theory, and guides master's theses and dissertations.
Mitchell Robinson is associate professor of music education at Michigan State University, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses and coordinates the student teaching program. Previous positions include an appointment as assistant professor and coordinator of music education at the University of Connecticut, and an appointment as assistant professor of school and community music education at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, where he also served as director of wind activities and wind ensemble conductor at the University of Rochester. Prior to that, Dr. Robinson taught for 10 years in the public schools of New York State, and also worked in administrative positions as a music supervisor and high school assistant principal.
T. Clark Saunders (B.F.A., 1977, M.F.A., 1978, S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo; Ph.D., Temple University, 1984) is Professor of Music Education and Assistant Director of the Music Education Division at The Hartt School, University of Hartford. He also serves as Chair of Graduate programs in music education teaching advanced courses in music education research and the psychology of music learning. Prior to coming to The Hartt School, Dr. Saunders taught at The University of Maryland at College Park (1986-1992) and Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA (1984-1986). From 1978 to 1981 he was Band Director and instrumental music teacher at Washingtonville High School, Washingtonville, NY.
Fumiko Shiraishi, assistant professor of music education at Iwate University in Japan, earned her bachelor's degree and a master's degree in music education at Joetsu University of Education (Japan) and another master's degree in educational philosophy at the University of Tsukuba (Japan). She studied in the United States as a Fulbright scholar and received a Ph.D. in music education from the University of Kansas. Her research interest is general music at the elementary and secondary school level, particularly the historical, philosophical, and theoretical inquiry of its values, goals, curriculum, and methodology. Her research in the history of American music education has been published in The Bulletin of Historical Research in Music Education, Journal of Research in Music Education, and several Japanese learned journals. Katherine Strand, Assistant professor of music education at Indiana University, holds a Ph.D. in music education from Northwestern University (2003), a Master of music in choral conducting from Virginia Commonwealth University (1987), and a Bachelor of Arts in music from Allegheny College (1981). Dr. Strand is on the voice faculty, and is an integrated arts teacher at the summer Virginia Governor's School for the Humanities and the Visual and Performing Arts, and is the director of the Descant choir for the Indiana University Children's Chorus. She has taught pre-kindergarten through 12th-grade choral and general music in Virginia and the Chicago public schools, and served for four years with the School for the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community performing arts academy as vocal coach and music director. Dr. Strand's research interests include action research, learning and transfer, integrated curriculum development, and composing in the music classroom. Her articles have appeared in the Music Educators Journal and the Indiana Musicator, and she has presented research on preschool children's rhythmic perception at the 6th International Conference on Music Cognition and Perception in Keele, England and on incorporating research in the undergraduate curriculum at the 2004 National MENC conference. Jill M. Sullivan is an Assistant Professor of Instrumental Music Education at Arizona State University in the School of Music, which is part of the Herberger College of Arts. She teaches undergraduate instrumental methods, doctoral research classes in quantitative and historical methodologies, and a master's level course in instrumental literature. Prior to working at ASU, she held teaching positions at the University of Oklahoma, and Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. Her research agenda includes historical publications pertaining to nineteenth- and twentieth-century women's bands and quantitative pre-service and in-service music teacher investigations. Dr. Sullivan has published in several refereed music journals: American Music, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Contributions to Music Education, Journal of Band Research, Journal of Music Therapy, Journal of Research in Music Education, Research and Issues in Music Education, and Teaching Music. She is currently completing her book American Women's Military Bands during World War II as part of The Scarecrow Press new series on American Wind Bands. She has presented her research and teacher-pedagogy workshops internationally in Australia, Austria, Italy, and Sweden. Currently Dr. Sullivan serves as the national chair of CMENC (Collegiate Music Educators of the National Association for Music Education), the past chair of Arizona CMENC, and is the ASU CMENC chapter advisor. She also is the past chair of the Gender Special Research Interest Group (SRIG) of The National Association for Music Education and is the past president of ACME (Arizona College Music Educators). David Teachout is Associate Professor and Chair of the Music Education Division at the University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG). Prior to joining the faculty at UNCG, he taught undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Minnesota and at Pennsylvania State University; he also enjoyed ten years of successful public school instrumental music teaching experience in Moore, Oklahoma.
Cecilia Wang is the director
of the Orff Program at the University of Kentucky. She is an
active researcher, and has published in the teaches
at the University of Kentucky where she has
served as the director of the Orff Schulwerk Program for
over twenty years. She presents research studies regularly and has
published in
national and international journals including the
Journal of Research
in Music Education (JRME), Psychology of Music, and
other journals.
She had served on the editorial board of JRME, IJME,
JTME, SRME, as
the RIG chair for the American Orff-Schulwerk
Association (AOSA), and
as national chair of the General Research SRIG for the
Music
Education Research Council. Her areas of research
include music
perception, teacher effectiveness, and creative
thinking. Dr. Wang
holds a BME from Viterbo University, La Crosse,
Wisconsin, and a MME
and a Ph.D. in Fine Arts from Texas Tech University,
Lubbock, TX.
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