Mike Morey (PhD ’19, DMA ’11) has published "Christopher Rouse's Symphony No. 1 (1986): Heroism in a Lyric Context" in Music Research and “Longing for a Fragment: Sappho as a Figure of Hope in Paul Sánchez’s ὁδοιπορία" in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Song Cycles Analytical Pathways Toward Performance" Gordon Sly and Michael R. Callahan, eds. Routledge Press (2021). His grandfather, George Morey, conducted the UNT Symphony Orchestra for 25 years and many of his family members are counted as UNT alumni.