FACULTY

 
 

Patricia Shehan Campbell teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in music education, including music for children, world music pedagogy, sociology of music, and research methods. She was named Donald E. Petersen Professor of Music in 2000, and continues to hold this appointment offered to accomplished faculty at the University of Washington.


Her interests include music in early and middle childhood, world music pedagogy, and the use of movement as a pedagogical tool. She has delivered lectures and conducted clinics across the U.S. and in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Campbell is published widely on issues of cross-cultural music learning, children’s musical development, music methods for children, and the study of world music in K-12 schools and university courses.


Campbell’s latest work is Musician and Teacher (2008) and Tunes and Grooves (2008). She has also published Teaching Music Globally (2004), one of multiple volumes within the Oxford University Press Global Music Series, for which she serves as co-editor. She is author of Songs in Their Heads (1998; 2nd ed. 2010), Music in Cultural Context (1996), and Lessons from the World (1991/2001), and co-author of Music in Childhood, Roots and Branches, Multicultural Perspectives in Music Education, The Lion’s Roar: Chinese Luogu Percussion Ensembles, From Rice Paddies and Temple Yards: Traditional Music of Viet Nam, Silent Temples, Songful Hearts: Traditional Music of Cambodia, From Bangkok and Beyond: Thai Music for Children, Games Children Sing: Malaysia, Traditional Songs of Singing Cultures, and Canciones de America Latina: De Origenes a la Escuela.


Campbell is currently Vice President of the Society for Ethnomusicology, and has served two terms on the SEM Council. She was board member of The College Music Society and the International Society for Music Education. Her editorial work has included terms with the Music Educators Journal and the Journal of Research in Music Education, and she is currently a member of the editorial committees for Psychology of Music (U.K.), Research Studies in Music Education (Australia), and JRME. Campbell was editor of the College Music Symposium and was named a Senior Research Scholar by the Music Educators National Conference in 2002.


She holds a Ph.D. from Kent State University and a B.F.A. from Ohio University. Campbell is a certified teacher of Dalcroze Eurhythmics, and continues her study of music’s transmission processes through applied lessons with visiting artists, culture-bearers, and community musicians.

PATRICIA SHEHAN CAMPBELL

Professor

STEVEN J. MORRISON

Professor

Steven J. Morrison is Professor and Chair of Music Education. An instrumental music specialist, Professor Morrison has taught at the elementary, junior high and senior high levels in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Louisiana. He has conducted and arranged for school and university bands, orchestras, and chamber groups throughout the United States. Morrison is the conductor of the University of Washington Symphonic Band.


Dr. Morrison is director of the Laboratory for Music Cognition, Culture and Learning investigating neurological responses to music listening, perceptual and performance aspects of pitch-matching and intonation, and use of expressive gesture and modeling in ensemble teaching. His research also includes music preference and the variability of musical responses across diverse cultural contexts.


Prior to joining the UW faculty, Morrison served as Lecturer of Fine Arts at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. He has spoken and presented research throughout the United States, as well as in Australia, China, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Italy, the Netherlands, Thailand, and the United Kingdom. During 2009 he served as a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities and as a Visiting Scholar in the Center for Music and Science at the University of Cambridge.


Morrison’s articles have appeared in Music Educators Journal, Journal of Research in Music Education, Bulletin for the Council of Research in Music Education, Music Perception, Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, Missouri Journal of Research in Music Education, Southwestern Musician, Recorder: Ontario Music Educators Association Journal, College Music Society Newsletter, and Southern Folklore. Along with colleague Steven M. Demorest, his research into music and brain function has appeared in Neuroimage and The Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.


He is also a contributing author to The Science and Psychology of Music Performance, published by Oxford University Press, the text Musician and Teacher: An Orientation to Music Education, authored by UW colleague Patricia Shehan Campbell and published by W.W. Norton, and along with co-author Steven Demorest the Oxford Handbook of Music Education and the Oxford Handbook of Cultural Neuroscience.


Morrison is the Editor of the Journal of Research in Music Education for which he also served on the editorial board. He is also on the editorial boards of Reviews of Research in Human Learning and Music and the Asia-Pacific Journal for Arts Education. Morrison has served on the executive board of the Society for Research in Music Education and is currently a member of the advisory board for the Asia-Pacific Symposium on Music Education Research. He is past University Curriculum Chair for the Washington Music Educators Association and an honorary member of the Gamma chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi.


He holds a B.M. from Northwestern University, an M.M. from the University of Wisconsin, and a Ph.D. from Louisiana State University.


Visit Prof. Morrison’s web page here.

Christopher Roberts teaches K-5 music in Seattle, and is Affiliate Assistant Professor of Music Education. He holds degrees from the University of Washington (Ph.D., M.A.) and Swarthmore College (B.A.), with research and clinical interests in children's musical cultures, world music education, and the nature of children’s interest in music. 


Recent articles have appeared in publications including the Oxford Handbook of Children's Musical Cultures (2013), Journal of Research in Music Education (2013), Southwestern Musician (2013), General Music Today (2012), Kodály Envoy (2012), Multicultural Perspectives in Music Education (2011), and Alternative Approaches to Music Education (2011). 


An active workshop clinician throughout the United States and Canada, he has presented workshops for music educators in 25 states and provinces, and will be a Featured Elementary Clinician at the 2014 Texas Music Educators’ Association Conference in San Antonio. During the summers, he directs and teaches in the Kodály Levels Program of Seattle. Currently, Dr. Roberts serves as the Western Division President-Elect for the Organization of American Kodály Educators and the member-at-large for NAfME’s Council for General Music.

CHRISTOPHER ROBERTS

Affiliate Assistant Professor

ELLEN DISSANAYAKE

Affiliate Professor

Ellen Dissanayake is an independent scholar whose work focuses on the anthropological exploration of art and culture. She is credited for re-defining art as 'making special'; that is, art making involves taking something out of its everyday use and context and making it somehow special.


As she states in her preface to 1995's Homo Aestheticus:

  1. At first glance, the fact that the arts and related aesthetic attitudes vary so widely from one society to another would seem to suggest that they are wholly learned or "cultural" in origin rather than, as I will show, also biological or "natural". One can make an analogy with language: learning to speak is a universal, innate predisposition for all children even though individual children learn the particular language of the people among whom they are nurtured. Similarly, art can be regarded as a natural, general proclivity that manifests itself in culturally learned specifics such as dances, songs, performances, visual display, and poetic speech.


Prof. Dissanayake received her B.A. degree from Washington State University in 1957. She has taught at the New School for Social Research in New York City, the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, Sarah Lawrence College, the National Arts School in Papua New Guinea, and the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka. In 1997 she was a visiting professor at Ball State University in Indiana, and the following year taught at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.


Her work emerged from her lived experience in the countries Sri Lanka, Nigeria, India, Madagascar, and Papua New Guinea, where she observed first-hand the cultural differences and attitudes toward art and culture amongst this variety of peoples.