MUSICOLOGY MUSIC THEORY ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
| Name | Degree | Thesis/Dissertation Title | Current Studies or Job Placement |
| Alexa Frederick | MA, Musicology (2026) | ||
| Robbie Segars | PhD, Musicology (2026) | ||
| Peter Kohanski | PhD and MA, Musicology (2026) | ||
| Emily Hicks | PhD, Musicology (2024) | The Augsburg Stadtpfeifer: Financial, Sonic, and Social Significance in the Early Modern German City | Adjunct, University of North Texas, and Area Institutions |
| Robert Anderson | PhD, Musicology (2022) | Ideal Hausmusik: Brahms’s Vocal Quartets (Opp. 31, 52, 64, 65, 92, 103, and 112) and the Politics of Domestic Music ca. 1848–1900 | Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| Jessica Stearns | PhD, Musicology (2022) | Performing Translations: Rethinking Christian Wolff’s Alternative Notation (1960–1968) in the Context of His Creative Communities |
Associate Professor of Music in Musicology/Ethnomusicology, East Texas A&M University |
| Brian Anderson | PhD, Musicology (2022) | A Quantitative Approach to the History of Music Binder's Volumes (1820–1900) | Senior Lecturer of Music History Pedagogy, University of North Texas |
| Camila Zimmerman | MA, Musicology (2022) | Audiovisual Technician, Special Collections, University of Georgia Libraries | |
| Elizabeth Durrant | MA, Musicology (2021) | PhD Student, Music and African American Studies, Yale University | |
| Adam La Spata | PhD, Musicology (2020) | Psalms, Hymns, and Commercial Songs: Tradition and Innovation in James Lyon’s “Urania” | |
| Amy Cooper | MM + PhD, Musicology (2020) | Borrowing Culture: British Music Circulating Libraries and Domestic Musical Practice, 1853–1910 | Instructor of Musicology, University of Arkansas |
| Kinley Johnson | MA, Musicology (2020) | PhD Student, Duke University | |
| Hunter Hancock | MA, Musicology (2024) | ||
| Anna Wodny | MA, Musicology | Archivist, Georgia State University Library | |
| Joyce Asber | MA, Musicology | JD, Boston College Law School | |
| Tanaporn Rajatanavin | MA, Musicology | Mahidol International Demonstration School, Mahidol University, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand |
| Name | Degree | Thesis/Dissertation Title | Current Studies or Job Placement |
| Blaine Brubaker | MA, Musicology (2019); MS, Library Science (2020 ) | Manager for Cataloging & Metadata Services, East View Information Services | |
| Andrea Recek | PhD, Musicology (2018) | Shaping Hagiography through Liturgy: Music for the Patron Saints of Three Cathedrals in Medieval Aquitaine | Director of Programs, Albany Public Schools Foundation (Albany, OR) |
| Clare Carrasco | PhD, Musicology (2016) | The Most Expressionist of All the Arts: Programs, Politics, and Performance in Critical Discourse about Music and Expressionism, c.1918–1923 | Honors Faculty Fellow, Arizona State University |
| Jonathan Sauceda | PhD, Musicology (2016) | Opera and Society in Early-Twentieth-Century Argentina: Felipe Boero's El Matrero | Associate Dean & Head of the Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music |
| Megan Varvir Coe | PhD, Musicology (2016) | Composing Symbolism’s Musicality of Language in Fin-de-siècle France | |
| Kimary Fick | PhD, Musicology (2015) | Sensitivity, Inspiration, and Rational Aesthetics: Experiencing Music in the North German Enlightenment | Instructor of Music History, Oregon State University |
| Kristin Wolski | MM, Musicology (2013) | Coordinator of Music Acquisitions, University Libraries, University of North Texas | |
| Mark Breckenridge | PhD, Musicology (2012) | “Sounds for Adventurous Listeners”: Willis Conover, the Voice of America, and the International Reception of Avant-garde Jazz in the 1960s | Instructor of Trombone, Brass Methods, and Music History, St. Cloud State University |
| Mary Heiden | PhD, Musicology (2011) | Patronage, Connoisseurship and Antiquarianism in Georgian England: The Fitzwilliam Music Collection (1763–1815) | Adjunct Lecturer of Music History, UT Tyler (Retired from Kilgore College) |
| Masataka Yoshioka | PhD, Musicology (2010) | Singing the Republic: Polychoral Culture at San Marco in Venice (1550–1615) | Instructor, Hiroshima, Japan |
| Name | Degree | Thesis/Dissertation Title | Current Studies or Job Placement |
| William McGinney | PhD, Musicology (2009) | The Sounds of the Dystopian Future: Music for Science Fiction Films of the New Hollywood Era, 1966–1976 | Adjunct Professor of Music History, University of North Texas |
| Gyongy Iren Erodi | MM, Early Music (2009) | The sixteenth-century basse de violon: fact or fiction?, Identification of the bass violin (1535–1635) | Performing Artist and Cello Teacher (Germany), Affiliation Unknown |
| Aaron West | PhD, Musicology (2008) | Caught Between Jazz and Pop: The Contested Origins, Criticism, Performance Practice, and Reception of Smooth Jazz | Music Faculty, Collin College |
| Joan Avant-Rossi | MA, Musicology (2008) | Michael Nyman, The man who mistook his wife for a hat | Performing Artist, Victorian Gothic Symphonic Rock (https://joanavant.com/) |
| Rebecca Ringer Estridge | PhD, Musicology (2007) | Beyond the "Year of Song": Text and Music in the Song Cycles of Robert Schumann after 1848 | Music Director and Development Associate, Hope Farm |
| Katie Buehner | MM, Musicology (2007) | Director, Rita Benton Music Library, University of Iowa | |
| Eric Jones | MM, Ethnomusicology (2007) | In-between music: The musical creation of cholo identity in Cochabamba, Bolivia | |
| Heeseung Lee | PhD, Musicology (2006) | The "Beethoven Folksong Project" in the Reception of His Music | Assistant Professor at the University of Northern Colorado |
| Kimberly Harris | PhD, Musicology (2005) | Poetry and Patronage: Alessandro Scarlatti, The Accademia Degli Arcadia, and the Development of the Conversazione Cantata in Rome 1700–1710 | Music Faculty, Collin College |
| Earnest Lamb | PhD, Musicology (2005) | Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, State University of New York College at Purchase | |
| Kevin Salfen | PhD, Musicology (2005) | Myth in the Early Collaborations of Benjamin Britten and William Plomer | Associate Dean, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; Professor of Music, University of the Incarnate Word |
| Hector Sequera | MM, Musicology (2005) | Lecturer in Performance, Durham University | |
| Kyung-Young Chung | PhD, Musicology (2004) | Professor of Music, Hanyang University | |
| R. Todd Rober | PhD, Musicology (2003) | Form, Style, Function, and Rhetoric in Gottlob Harrer's Sinfonias: A Case Study in the Early History of the Symphony | Associate Professor of Music, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania |
| Gregory Straughn | PhD, Musicology (2003) | Reconstructing Convention: Ensemble Forms in the Operas of Jules Massenet | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Abilene Christian University |
| John Dunn | MM, Musicology (2002) | Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Northwestern State University of Louisiana | |
| Susannah Cleveland | MM, Musicology (2001) | Head Music Librarian, University of North Texas |
| Name | Degree | Thesis/Dissertation Title | Current Studies or Job Placement |
| Brett Boutwell | MM, Musicology (1999) | Associate Professor of Musicology and William F. Swor Alumni Professor, Louisiana State University | |
| Alejandro Madrid | MM, Musicology (1999) | Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music, Harvard University | |
| Allison Ann Alcorn | PhD, Musicology (1997) | Professor of Musicology, Illinois State University | |
| Jeremy Leong | MM, Musicology (1997) | Assistant Professor of Musicology, UCSI University Malaysia | |
| David Hamrick | PhD, Musicology (1996) | Cadential Syntax and Mode in the Sixteenth-Century Motet: A Theory of Compositional Process and Structure from Gallus Dressler's Praecepta Musicae Poeticae | Cataloging Librarian, Texas Christian University |
| Matt Stock | MM, Musicology (1996) | Fine & Applied Arts Librarian, University of Oklahoma | |
| Vicki Stroeher | PhD, Musicology (1994) | Form and Meaning in Benjamin Britten's Sonnet Cycles | Professor of Music History, Marshall University |
| James Parsons | PhD, Musicology (1992) | Ode to the Ninth: the Poetic and Musical Tradition Behind the Finale of Beethoven's Choral Symphony | Distinguished Professor of Music History, Missouri State University |
| Christine Getz | PhD, Musicology (1991) | Music and Patronage in Milan 1535–1550 and Vincenzo Ruffo's First Motet Book | Dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Professor in the Conservatory, University of Missouri–Kansas City |
| Jan McDaniel | MM, Musicology (1990) | Professor of Music, Oklahoma City University |
| Name | Degree | Thesis/Dissertation Title | Current Studies or Job Placement |
| Russell E. Murray Jr. | MM, Musicology (1999) | Associate Professor of Musicology and William F. Swor Alumni Professor, Louisiana State University | |
| Stuart Cheney | MM, Musicology (1999) | Walter W. Naumburg Professor of Music, Harvard University | |
| Terri Teal | PhD, Musicology (1997) | Professor of Musicology, Illinois State University | |
| Susan Treacy | PhD, Musicology (1986) | English Devotional Song of the Seventeenth Century in Printed Collections from 1638 to 1693: A Study of Music and Culture | Professor of Music Emerita, Ave Maria University |
| James Siddons | PhD, Musicology (1983) | On the Nature of Melody in Asia and Medieval Europe | Professor of Music, Liberty University |
| Terry Fansler | PhD, Musicology (1982) | The Anthem in America: 1900–1950 | Associate Professor of Music and Director of Studies in Music Business, Dallas Baptist University |
| Bill Smialek | PhD, Musicology (1981) | Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński (1807–1867): His Life and Symphonies | Consultant and former Director of Development, East Texas Youth Orchestra |
| Name | Degree | Thesis/Dissertation Title | Current Studies or Job Placement |
| Dyke Kiel | PhD, Musicology (1979) | Professor Emeritus, Cottey College | |
| Nancy Lefter | MM, Musicology (1978) | Director of Choral Activities, The Citadel | |
| Gene Vollen (Passed) | PhD, Musicology (1970) | Professor Emeritus, Pittsburg State University | |
| Morgan Powell (Passed) | MM, Musicology (1961) | Professor Emeritus of Composition, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Name | Degree | Thesis/Dissertation Title | Current Studies or Job Placement |
| Alison Parker | MA, Musicology (2026) |
DMA, Flute Performance, University of North Texas |
|
| Xiao Yun | PhD, Music Theory (2025) | “Tonal Enigmas: A Study of Problematic Openings and Endings” |
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Theory, Wabash College |
| Emma Hans | MA, Music Theory (2024) | Two papers in Lieu of Thesis | |
| Sylvia Hsu | MA, Music Theory (2024) | “Analyzing Epics: Musical Formula in Video Game Boss Battle Music” | |
| Leonardo Zuno | PhD, Music Theory (2024) | “Inward, Outward, and Liminal Spaces in Beethoven” | Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing And Visual Arts |
| José Barnett | MA, Music Theory (2023) | Two papers in Lieu of Thesis | |
| Matthew Oliver | PhD, Music Theory (2023) | “Harmonic Function in Rock: A Melodic Approach” | |
| Alexandra Rouw | MA, Music Theory (2023) | “A Musical Courtship: Clara Schumann’s Six Lieder, Opus 13” | |
| Dorian Stewart | MA, Music Theory (2023) | Two papers in Lieu of Thesis |
PhD, Music Theory, University of Oregon |
| Eric Swartz | MA, Music Theory (2023) | “A Musical Representation of Jewish Faith in Ernest Bloch’s 1923 ‘Baal Shem Suite’” | |
| Matthew Bilik | PhD, Music Theory (2022) | “Motivic Stratification in Fauré’s Late Chamber Works: Perspectives on Voice Leading and Tonal Coherence” |
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut |
| Amy Hatch | PhD, Music Theory (2022) | “Developing Ogolevet’s Doubly Augmented Prime: Semitonal Voice Leading in the Music of Shostakovich” |
Director of AP Theory, College Board |
| Bryan Stevens Espinosa | PhD, Music Theory (2022); MA, Music Theory (2015) |
“Theorizing Sonata Form from the Margins: The Keyboard Sonata in Eighteenth-Century Spain” (2022) “Formal Organization in Ground-bass Compositions” (2015) |
Assistant Professor of Music Theory, Sam Houston University |
| Melinda Knowling | MA, Music Theory (2022) | Two papers in Lieu of Thesis | |
| Jeremy Nowak | PhD, Music Theory (2022) | “Elements of Formal Continuity in Robert Schumann’s ‘Novelletten,’ op. 21 and Other Piano Works” | |
| He Wang | MA, Music Theory (2022) | “A Study of Large-Scale Auxiliary Cadence Types in Songs of Schubert, Brahms and Berg” | |
| Yiyi Gao | PhD, Music Theory (2021) | “Nontraditional Six-Four Chords and Their Impact on Middleground Structures in Schumann, Brahms, and Saint-Säens” | Independent Piano Teacher |
| Joseph Turner | PhD, Music Theory (2021) | “Theory and Practice in Book 2 of Ugolino’s (c.1380-1457) ‘Declaratio musicae disciplinae’” | |
| Patrick Sallings | PhD, Music Theory (2021) | “Change, Longing, and Frustration in Djent-Style Progressive Metal” | |
| Lerie Dellosa | MA, Music Theory (2021) | “Messiaen’s Musical Language: Technique and Theological Symbolism in Les Corps Glorieux, ‘Combat De La Mort Et De La Vie’” |
Guitar Instructor, Arkansas Arts Academy |
| David Huff |
PhD, Music Theory (2020); MM, Music Theory (2010) |
“Sounds Themselves: Intersections of Serialism and Musique Concrète in Karlheinz Stockhausen’s ‘Elektronische Studie I’” (2020) “Prolongation in Post-Tonal Music: A Survey of Analytical Techniques and Theoretical Concepts with an Analysis of Alban Berg’s Op. 2, No. 4, Warm Die Lüfte” (2010) |
Sound Preservationist, University of North Texas Libraries |
| Lance Russell |
PhD, Music Theory (2020) |
“The Phenomenology of Harmonic Progression” | Independent Scholar |
| Andrew Vagts |
PhD, Music Theory (2020) |
“Fanfare and Pastoral Topics in Mozart’s Così fan tutte” |
Lecturer of Music Theory, Baylor University |
| Name | Degree | Thesis/Dissertation Title | Current Studies or Job Placement |
| Jason Patterson | PhD, Music Theory (2019) |
Adjunct Faculty, Collin College |
|
| David Falterman | MA, Music Theory (2019) |
Assistant Professor of Music Theory, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
|
| Tish Davenport | PhD, Music Theory (2018) |
Music Minister, Searcy First United Methodist Church |
|
| Jayson Smith | PhD, Music Theory (2018) |
|
|
| Jenny Oliver | MA, Music Theory (2018) |
Administrative Coordinator & Box Office Manager, Wichita Falls Symphony |
|
| Sara Bowden | BM, Music Theory (2018) |
Visual Instructor, 7th Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps |
|
| Austin Simonds | BM, Music Theory (2017) |
|
|
| Michele Newman | PBM, Music Theory (2017) |
PhD Candidate, Information Science, University of Washington |
|
| Benjamin Graf | PhD, Music Theory (2016) |
Principal Lecturer of Music Theory, University of North Texas |
|
| Colin Davis | PhD, Music Theory (2015) |
|
|
| Benjamin Dobbs | PhD, Music Theory (2015) |
Assistant Professor of Music Theory, Furman University |
|
| Jeff Ensign | PhD, Music Theory (2015) |
Production Analyst, Music Reports, Inc. |
|
| Reiner Kramer | PhD, Music Theory (2015) |
Associate Professor of Music Theory, University of Northern Colorado |
|
| Mike Rogers | PhD, Music Theory (2015) |
Associate Professor, Director of Jazz Studies, & Coordinator of Music Theory, Abilene Christian University |
|
| Karel (Kája) Lill | MA, Music Theory (2015) |
Assistant Professor of Music Theory, UMKC |
|
| Raychel Taylor | BM, Music Theory (2015) |
Founder, Girls March
|
|
| Alexander Amato | PhD, Music Theory (2014) |
Assistant Professor, Stephen F. Austin State University |
|
| Jennifer Weaver | PhD, Music Theory (2014) |
Chair, Music Department; Program Director, Music Theory; Professor of Music, Dallas Baptist University |
|
| Rachel Herbaugh | MA, Music Theory (2014) |
|
|
| Molly Covington | BM, Music Theory (2014) |
PhD in Musicology, Indiana University |
|
| Irán Román | BM, Music Theory (2013) |
Postdoctoral Research, New York University’s Music and Audio Research Laboratory |
|
| Katy Kinard | MM, Music Theory (2013) |
Sr. Administrative Coordinator for Awards and Admissions, University of North Texas |
|
| Ryan Taycher | MA, Music Theory (2013); BM, Composition (2010) |
Adjunct Faculty, Roosevelt University, Chicago College of Performing Arts |
|
| Cara Stroud | MM, Music Theory (2012) |
Chair of Music Theory Area; Associate Professor, Michigan State University |
|
| Michael Lively | PhD, Music Theory (2010) |
Lecturer of Music Theory, Southern Methodist University |
| Name | Degree | Thesis/Dissertation Title | Current Studies or Job Placement |
| Colleen Conlon | PhD, Music Theory (2009) |
Sr. Graduate Academic Advisor, University of North Texas |
|
| Tim Hughes | MM, Music Theory (1995) |
Senior Lecturer of Music Theory, University of West London, London College of Music |
|
| James McGowan | MM, Music Theory (1995) |
Associate Professor; Supervisor of Performance, Ensembles, & Masterclasses, Carleton University |
|
| Cynthia Gonzales | MM, Music Theory (1990) |
Professor of Music, Texas State University |
|
| Mark Spicer | MM, Music Theory (1990); BM, Music Theory (1987) |
Professor of Music, Hunter College and City University of New York Graduate Center |
|
| Timothy McKinney | PhD, Music Theory (1989) |
Professor of Music Theory, Baylor University |
|
| John Murphy | MM, Music Theory (1986) |
Former Chair of Division of Jazz Studies; Professor of Jazz History, University of North Texas |
|
| Jane Clendinning | MM, Music Theory (1983) |
Professor of Music Theory, Florida State University |
| Name | Degree | Thesis/Dissertation Title | Current Studies or Job Placement |
| Meng Ren | PhD, Ethnomusicology (2025) | "Forbidden Sounds: The Art, Culture, and Politics of Chinese Hip Hop." |
|
| Jacob Bissell | MA, Ethnomusicology (2024) |
Independent Artist |
|
| Yuxin Mei | PhD, Ethnomusicology (2024); MA, Ethnomusicology (2017) | “Powerful Fingers, Elegant Bodies: Reclaiming Chinese Pipa’s Feminine History” (PhD) |
Adjunct Professor, University of North Texas, Southern Methodist University, and University of Texas at Dallas |
| Yang T. Chen | MA, Ethnomusicology (2020) |
|
|
| Lizeth C. Domínguez | MA, Ethnomusicology (2020) |
Mariachi Director, South Grand Prairie High School |
|
| José R. Torres-Ramos | PhD, Ethnomusicology (2020) | “Mariachismo: Music, Machismo, and Mexicanidad” |
Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, San José State University Director, Mariachi San José |
| Thanmayee Holalkere Krishnamurthy | MA, Ethnomusicology (2019) |
South Indian Karnatic Musician, PhD Student in Ethnomusicology, University of North Texas |
|
| Nate Ash-Morgan | MA, Ethnomusicology |
PhD in Ethnomusicology, University of North Texas |
|
| Avery Wright | MA, Ethnomusicology |
PhD in Ethnomusicology, University of North Texas |
| Name | Degree | Thesis/Dissertation Title | Current Studies or Job Placement |
| Sean Peters | MA, Ethnomusicology (2017), PhD, Music and Sound Studies (Cornell, 2025) |
|
|
| Arathi Govind | MM, Ethnomusicology (2012) |
Program Officer, Redford Center |
|
| Myranda Harris | MM, Ethnomusicology (2012) |
Program Director, Artly World Nonprofit |
|
| Carl Vermilyea | MM, Ethnomusicology (2011) |
Adjunct Professor, Tallahassee State College |
|
| Jeff Hodges | MM, Ethnomusicology (2010) |
Director of Bands, Avery County Schools |