History SRIG Award
Winners
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1994-George
Heller - Professor
Heller was the first national chair of the History Special
Research Interest Group of the Music Educators National
Conference (MENC) and was the founding editor of
The
Bulletin of Historical Research in Music
Education (1980-99). He
was the music education area advisor for
The New Grove Dictionary of American Music
(1986). Heller
remains active in the music education profession as both a
researcher and writer, and he continues to serve in
professional organizations. He is on the Editorial
Committee of the Journal of
Music Teacher Education of the MENC and
is Editor Emeritus of the Journal of
Historical Research in Music
Education. In February,
2003, the Kansas Music Educators Association inducted
Heller into its Hall of Fame.
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1996
- Allen P. Britton - Allen Perdue
Britton was a prominent figure in American music education
and in musicology. Beyond his term as MENC president, he
also served as president of the Sonneck Society for
American Music, was heavily involved in the Julliard
Repertory Project, and worked on countless other boards and
committees. Britton was band director in the public schools
of Griffith, Indiana, and at Eastern Illinois University
before WWII. Between 1943-1946 he served a two-and-a-half
year stint in the Army, mostly playing in dance bands at
service clubs, and he served with the military police in
the Camp Custer German prisoner of war camp. Britton
received a B.S. in Instrumental Music, M.A. in Education
from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. in Musicology
from the University of Michigan. He was the founding editor
of the MENC Published Journal of
Research in Music Education. While at
Michigan he was also director of the University Division of
the national Music Camp at Interlochen. He was dean and
professor emeritus in music education at the University of
Michigan School of Music.
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1998-Michael
Mark-
Dr. Michael
Mark is Emeritus Professor of Music at Towson University,
where he also served as Dean of the Graduate School. Prior
to that, he was head of the music education program at The
Catholic University of America. He is the author of
numerous books and articles on the history of music
education and is an invited speaker at conferences,
symposia and universities throughout the country and
internationally. A Fulbright Scholar, he holds degrees from
The George Washington University, The University of
Michigan, and The Catholic University of America. He has
been a consultant for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the
Peabody Conservatory of Music, the University of Maryland,
and the Maryland State Department of Education. In
recognition of Mark's contributions as a historian of the
music education profession, he was inducted into the Music
Educators Hall of Fame of the Music Educators National
Conference.
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2000 - Bruce D. Wilson
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2002 -
Sondra Wieland Howe is an
independent scholar in Wayzata, Minnesota. She received an
A.B. in music history from Wellesley College, A.M.T. in
music education from Radcliffe College (Harvard Graduate
School of Education), and an M.A. in musicology and a Ph.D.
in music education from the University of Minnesota. She is
currently on the Editorial Board of the Journal of
Historical Research in Music
Education,
Journal of
Research in Music Education, and
Research
and Issues in Music Education and pursues
research on the history of music education, women in music,
and music teaching in Meiji, Japan. Dr. Howe has
published Luther
Whiting Mason: International Music Educator
(Harmonie Park
Press, 1997) and numerous journal articles and book
reviews. She is the Historian for the Minnesota Music
Teachers Association and is active in the Society for
American Music and the International Society for Music
Education.
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2004
- William Lee -
Dr. William Lee
is a Professor of Music and Coordinator of the Music
Education Program at The University of Tennessee
Chattanooga. Dr. Lee has
taught brass lessons, Secondary Music Education, Tests and
Measurements, Research Methods, History and Philosophy of
Music Education, the Psychology of Music, and directed
student teaching and graduate theses in the Department.
Prior to joining the music faculty, he was a successful
high school and middle school band director and has
conducted community orchestras and choirs in Chattanooga.
He is Research Chair of the Tennessee Music Education
Association. Dr. Lee is deeply interested in the history of
music education. He has served as Chair of the History
Special Research Interest Group of the MENC and received
the HSRIG national special service award in 2004. His
service has included membership on the boards of the
Journal of
Research in Music Education and the
Journal of
Historical Research in Music
Education. He has
reviewed historical work for the Quarterly
Journal of the History of Education
and
Oxford University Press and has published in the
Dictionary
of the History of Education. Further, he
has published in such diverse journal and magazines
as The Music
Educators Journal,
The Journal
of Band Research,
The
Tennessee Musician,
The Journal
of Church Music,
The Journal
of Research in Music Education, and many
others.
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2006
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CAROLYN LIVINGSTON has
taught graduate and undergraduate courses at the University
of Rhode Island since 1987. She was Coordinator of Music
Education from 1989-1997 and Director of Graduate Studies
in Music from 1997-2006. Dr. Livingston's primary research
interest is history of music education. Presented with the
History SRIG's Biennial Service Award in 2006 for
"outstanding service and research," she is one of four
history researchers invited to present separate sessions
commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of MENC at the
60 th National Biennial In-Service Conference held in Salt
Lake City , Utah in April 2006. She was chair of MENC's
History Special Research Interest Group (SRIG) and editor
of the national newsletter,
History Notes ,
from 2000-2002. Dr. Livingston has been an invited
presenter for History SRIG sessions at four MENC national
conferences and presented papers at Philosophy of Music
Education International Symposia II, III and
IV.A member of the editorial committees of the
Journal of Research in Music Education
(JRME)
and the
Journal of Historical Research in Music
Education (JHRME),
her articles have appeared in numerous professional
journals, including JRME, JHRME,
Bulletin of Historical Research in Music Education,
Philosophy of Music Education Review, Music Educators
Journal, Update, Quarterly Journal of Music Teaching and
Learning, American Music Teacher, Choral Journal, Opera
Journal, British Music, Rhode Island Music Educators
Record, and
Tennessee Musician .
She
is the author of
Charles Faulkner Bryan: His Life and Music
,
published by the University of Tennessee
Press.
