Alumna to Commerce
Jessica Stearns (PhD, Musicology ‘22) has accepted a position as an assistant professor at Texas A&M University, Commerce.
Jessica Stearns (PhD, Musicology ‘22) has accepted a position as an assistant professor at Texas A&M University, Commerce.
University of North Texas Distinguished Research Professor of Music and Anthropology, Steven Friedson, will keynote speak at Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music. Ritual Transformations of Consciousness is the institute's second annual conference in the Black sacred arts underway May 15 in New Haven, Connecticut.
Assistant Professor of Music History and specialist in American popular music history, Brian Wright, presents "Play Guitar with the Ventures!: How Amateurs Reshaped Rock 'n' Roll" at the Cleveland, Ohio Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as part of the Rock Hall's joint lecture series with the American Musicological Society.
The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy won an award for outstanding multi-author publication from the Society for Music Theory featuring one chapter by Associate Professor of Music Theory David Heetderks with another by Doug Donley (MA ’16, PhD ‘21) and Andrew Vagts (PhD ‘20).
The University of North Texas Foundation awarded April Prince, principal lecturer in music history, theory and ethnomusicology with its Outstanding Lecturer Award.