Jere T. Humphreys

Jere T. Humphreys
Born March 26, 1949
Tennessee, USA
Residence Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Fields Music Education
Institutions Arizona State University
West Virginia University
Huntingdon College
Alma mater University of Mississippi
Florida State University
University of Michigan
Notable awards MENC Citation of Excellence in Research, Distinguished Service Award, and Senior Researcher Award for lifetime achievement
Fulbright Senior Scholar, and Fulbright Senior Specialist
Spouse Alexandra Houzouri Humphreys
Website
http://www.public.asu.edu/~aajth/

Jere T. Humphreys (born March 26, 1949, Tennessee) is a music scholar who applies historical, quantitative, philosophical, and sociological research methods to music education and arts business.[1][2][3][4]

Education

Humphreys holds a B.M. in music education from the University of Mississippi, an M.M. in clarinet performance from Florida State University, and a Ph.D. in music education from the University of Michigan.[2]

Teaching

Humphreys has been a professor in the School of Music, Arizona State University (ASU) since 1987.[1] Previously, he taught at West Virginia University and Huntingdon College (Montgomery, Alabama), and in the Mississippi public schools.

He has had a career as a lecturer, consultant, and presenter in 32 U.S. states and 31 countries on six continents, including service as an academic specialist in Eastern Europe for the U.S. Information Agency (Departement of State). He has been a guest lecturer/professor in nearly 40 institutions worldwide, several of them multiple times. He has completed extended residencies at Northern Illinois University, the University of South Florida, and the University of Michigan, an endowed chair residency at the University of Alabama, and university residencies outside the United States in Argentina, Bulgaria, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. He has been an instructor and dissertation advisor for the Native American Educational Leadership Ed.D. program in the ASU College of Education and for the music education D.M.A. program at Boston University. Worldwide, he has been a dissertation and thesis advisor, committee member, and external reviewer for institutions in Australia, Eastern and Western Europe, and North and South America. Altogether, he has advised 40 doctoral dissertations and two master’s theses, including several university or national award winners. He has been nominated for ASU Professor of the Year, ASU Distinguished Mentor of Women, and ASU College of Fine Arts Distinguished Teacher of the Year awards.[2]:#TEACHING

Research

He has more than 175 publications and translations in eight languages (Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, English, Greek, Macedonian, Spanish, Turkish), including chapters and articles in books and journals,[5] the Grove Dictionary of American Music, and Sage Directions in Educational Psychology—a republication of works by leading scholars in educational psychology and measurement (e.g., Bruner, Chronbach, Glaser, Nunnally, Piaget, Rogers, Stanley, and Robert Thorndike). He has received three research awards from the National Association for Music Education: an MENC Citation of Excellence in Research (1985), a Distinguished Service Award "for exceptional contributions to scholarship"[6] from the MENC History Special Research Interest Group (2010), and the prestigious MENC Senior Researcher Award for lifetime achievement (2006). Humphreys is a Fulbright Senior Scholar (Macedonia 2002) and Fulbright Senior Specialist (Egypt 2010, Turkey 2015) who has presented 17 keynote and other major speeches worldwide. As a member of the Senior Editorial Board and contributing editor for music education for the second edition of the Grove Dictionary of American Music (Oxford University Press),[7] Humphreys commissioned and oversaw the writing/revising/editing of approximately 350 articles related to music education and music therapy. He was also a section editor and author for the Oxford Handbook of Music Education. He has served as editor of the Journal of Historical Research in Music Education[8][9] and on the editorial committees of 16 education, music education, and music therapy research journals. He has collaborated with the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts (consultant), European Union and U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (member of research teams), and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (reviewer).

Professional and Community Service

Humphreys has served as a university accreditation evaluator in Canada and held leadership positions in the College Music Society (Advisory Committee for Music Education), Fulbright Association Arizona Chapter (Board of Directors Co-President), Greek Society for Music Education (Scientific Advisor), International Society for Music Education (Financial Advisory Committee), MENC (Hall of Fame Board, Executive Committee for Society for Research in Music Education, Executive Committee for Society for Music Teacher Education, National Chair for History Special Research Interest Group, Chair for MENC Centennial History Symposium), University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance Alumni Society (Board of Governors), and others. Outside of academia Humphreys served in the U.S. Army National Guard (rank: Specialist E-5). In recent years he has served as vice-president for nominating and governance, and is currently vice-president for personnel, chair of the Bylaws Committee, and member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors for the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona. A Habitat for Humanity (HFH) volunteer since 1998, he has served as a construction house leader/co-leader or block leader for 33 builds with HFH Central Arizona and Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Projects, and has participated in dozens of other projects, including a Global Village build in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Beginning in 2002, he worked with HFH International founding president Millard Fuller to found HFH Macedonia, an award-winning affiliate to which he still contributes as an honorary member of the Board of Directors. On May 23, 2014, HFH Macedonia dedicated its first new building to Humphreys, six condominiums in Veles, Macedonia.[2]:#SERVICE

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "ASU Faculty + Staff Directory Jere Humphreys". http://music.asu.edu/. Retrieved 2014-05-20.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Curriculum Vitae". Retrieved 2014-05-20.
  3. ↑ Lee, William R. "Humphreys, Jere T." In Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd ed., vol. 4. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 274–75. Oxford Music Online: Grove Music Online. May 2010. http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.
  4. ↑ Collins, Irma. Dictionary of Music Education. Lanham, MD and Plymouth, UK: Scarecrow Press, 2013.
  5. ↑ Cited as one of 25 currently active researchers who contributed 5 or more articles to the JRME. Yarbrough, Cornelia. "The First 50 Years of the Journal of Research in Music Education: A Content Analysis." Journal of Research in Music Education 50, no. 4 (Winter 2002): 276–79.
  6. ↑ "History SRIG Distinguished Service Awards". Retrieved 2014-05-20.
  7. ↑ "The Grove Dictionary of American Music Second Edition: Senior Editorial Board". 2013.
  8. ↑ Hedden, Steven K. "Music Education Research: A Dozen Conventions and a Dozen JRME Volumes." Bulletin of Historical Research in Music Education 15, no. 1 (September 1993): 17–30.
  9. ↑ Cox, Gordon. "Transforming Research in Music Education History." In MENC Handbook of Research Methodologies, ed. Richard Colwell, 73–94. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

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