Recipients of the Outstanding Dissertation Award
of the Council for Research in Music Education
2022
Lived Experiences of Transgender and Gender Expansive College Marching Band Members
Justin C. McManus
Exploring Musical Knowledge Within One Canadian School of Music: Ideology, Pedagogy, and Identity
Kyle Zavitz
2021
Engaging Indigenous Voices in the Academy:
Indigenizing Music in Canadian Universities
Laurel Forshaw
2020
Critical Border Crossing: Exploring Positionalities
Through Soundscape Composition & Critical Reflection
Kelly Bylica
2019
Making It Through: Persistence and Attrition
Along Music, Education, and Music Education Pathways
Adam Grisé
2018
A Corpus-assisted Discourse Analysis
of Music-related Practices within Chipmusic.org
Jared O’Leary
2017
On Stage, Off, and In-between:
Negotiating Gay Identity and Teacher Identity in the Choral Classroom
Nicholas McBride
2016
A Model of Classroom Environment and Social-Psychological Factors Influencing Computer-Based Compositional Creativity
Candice Ann Davenport
2015
Ensemble Educators, Administrators, and Evaluation:
Support, Survival, and Navigating Change in a High-Stakes Environment
Cara F. Bernard
Virtual Vocal Ensembles and the Mediation of Performance on YouTube
Christopher Cayari
2014
“They Wasn’t Makin’ My Kinda Music”:
Hip-Hop, Schooling, and Music Education
Adam J. Kruse
2013
A Social Phenomenological Investigation of Music Teachers’ Senses
of Self, Place, and Practice
Elizabeth Bucura
2012
Music at Home: A Portrait of Family Music-Making
Patricia Gingras
2011
Justifying Music Education:
Econometric Analyses of Issues in Music Education Policy
Kenneth Elpus
2010
Voices Not Heard: Voice-Use Profiles of Elementary Music Teachers, the Effects of Voice Amplification on Vocal Load, and Perceptions of Issues Surrounding Voice Use
Sharon Morrow
2009
Conceptions of Effective Teaching and Role-Identity Development
Among Preservice Music Educators
Wesley D. Brewer
2008
Career Decisions of String Music Educators:
Factors Associated with Retention, Migration, and Attrition
Joshua Alexander Russell
2007
Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs: A Phenomenological Examination of Participants in a Fieldwork Experience
Ryan Hourigan
2006
Socialization and Occupational Identity Among Preservice Music Teachers Enrolled in Traditional Baccalaureate Degree Programs
Daniel Scott Isbell
2005
Merry Throngs and Street Gangs: The Fabrication of Whiteness and the Worthy Citizen in Early Vocal Instruction and Music Appreciation, 1830-1930
Ruth Gustafson
2002
Crossing Over: Mutual Learning and Democratic Action
in Instrumental Music Education
Randall Everett Allsup
The Transmission of Ghanaian Music by Culture-Bearers:
From Master Musician to Music Teacher
Sheila J. Feay-Shaw
1998-1999
Teacher Practice, Pedagogical Discourses and the Construction of Knowledge:
Two Case Studies of Teachers at Work
Thorolf Kruger
1996
Consistency of Tempo Judgments as a Measure of Time
Experience in Music Listening
Eleni Lapidaki
1995
Qualitative and Quantitative Relationships between Children’s Creative
Musical Thinking Processes and Products
Maud Mary Hickey
1994
Perceptual Modalities in Music Listening Among Third-Grade Students
Robert E. Dunn
1993
A History of Multicultural Music Education in the Public Schools
of the United States, 1900-1990
Therese Volk
A History of the Northshore Concert Band, Wilmette, Illinois, 1956-1986:
The First Thirty Years
William Carson
1991
Images of Imagination: A Philosophical Study of Imagination in Music with Application to Music Education
Mary Reichling
1990
Intelligence and Feeling: A Philosophical Examination of These Concepts as Interdependent Factors in Music Experience and Music Education
W. Ann Stokes
Music Education and the Quest for Cultural Identity in Ireland, 1831-1989
Marie McCarthy
Melodic Schemata, Forms of Representation, and Cognitive Strategies Used by Fourth-Graders in the Recall and Reproduction of Familiar Songs
Janet Revell Barrett
The Effects of Vocal Coordination Instruction of the Pitch Accuracy, Range, Pitch Discrimination, and Tonal Memory of Inaccurate Singers
Jeffrey Aaron
1985
Factors Affecting Accuracy in Children’s Singing
Mary Goetze
A Phenomenology of Music Themes Concerning the Musical Object and
Implications for Teaching and Learning
Douglas Bartholomew
1984
A Computer-Based Trainer for Music Conducting:
The Effects of Four Feedback Modes
David Schwaegle
1983
The Effects of Group Breath Control Training on Selected Vocal Measures Related to the
Singing Ability of Elementary Students in Grades Two, Three, and Four
Kenneth Phillips
1982
Modified Path Analysis of a Skills-Based Instructional Effectiveness Model for Beginning Teachers in Instrumental Music Education
Richard Sang