Members of the Chapter in good standing, who are unable to vote in person at the spring meeting, may post this electronic ballot by mail. Completely electronic voting may be available in the near future if approved at the upcoming business meeting. If you strongly support or oppose electronic voting, please send an email to Chapter president James Briscoe <jbriscoe@butler.edu>.
DEADLINE FOR SPRING
2003 ELECTION:
Vote must be received by 11:59 PM (Eastern Standard Time) on 19 March 2003.
AMS MIDWEST
CHAPTER
2003 ELECTION
CANDIDATE BIOS
Richard L. Bowen
Ph.D. (Musicology), University of Cincinnati
M.M. (Music Education/Voice), West Chester University
B.S. (Music Education/Voice), B.A. (Psychology), Lebanon Valley College of Pennsylvania
Upon completion of my undergraduate studies, I directed a high school choral program in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, for a number of years, after which I spent a year in the musicology program at Ludwig-Maximillians University in Munich, Germany. While there I directed the UniversityÕs Palestrina Choir and performed as a member of the Munich Motet Choir. My experience as a conductor of choral ensembles includes extensive work with public school choruses, church music programs, and university choirs. I have also been teaching and directing handbell choirs for more than twenty years, and serve as director of the summer music program at Camp Penn, near Gettysburg, PA. While at the University of CincinnatiÕs College-Conservatory of Music, I taught undergraduate and graduate music history courses, served as an assistant in the Early Music Laboratory and performed in a variety of ensembles. In August of 2001, I came to Wabash College as Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, where I taught music history and directed the Glee Club. In addition to my teaching, conducting and performing skills, I have had wide-ranging administrative experience in a variety of organizational settings. In successive terms as treasurer and president of the Graduate Student AssociationÑthe governance organization for the 6,000 graduate students at the University of CincinnatiÑI administered the activities of some forty graduate organizations, planned workshops, supervised a professional conferences awards program and managed a $40,000 annual budget. I also served for a year as Coordinator for College Relations and Student Affairs in the University of CincinnatiÕs University College. I am presently Director of the Center for Academic Enrichment at Wabash College. The Center provides support to faculty in the development and implementation of initiatives that enhance the academic experiences of our students. I continue to teach music courses at Wabash and have recently accepted an invitation to become the conductor of the Crawfordsville Community Chorus.
Roberta Lindsey, Assistant Professor and Advisor for the Music Minor Program at Indiana University-Indianapolis (IUPUI), currently teaches four separate classes -- one an internet distance music appreciation course that she developed and maintains. She received her Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in 1996 focusing on Aaron Copland's first orchestral work, "Grohg, A Ballet in One-Act." Dr. Lindsey has numerous publications, including three essays in the Reader's Guide to Music: History, Theory, and Criticism. She received two grants: Grant in aid for Women from IUPUI and a Dena Epstein Award for Music Research. Dr. Lindsey is also the Teacher of Record for the Music History Component of the NSF Grant to Indiana University for the Variations2/Digital Music Library Project. As secretary for the AMS-Midwest chapter, Dr. Lindsey intends to send out all information al mailings in a timely manner, work with the AMS-Midwest Website manager to insure that all general chapter information, meeting minutes, and call for paper deadlines is transmitted in a timely fashion. She will also attend all meetings deemed necessary at both the chapter and national level. Sincerely, Roberta Dr. Roberta Lindsey Assistant Professor, IU School of Music-IUPUI Advisor, Music Minor Program Office number: 317-278-7868
Michael Vaughn
Faculty, Department of Fine Arts, National-Louis University
PhD, Northwestern University
MM, Northwestern University
BM, Birmingham-Southern College
Specialist in music of the English Resotration period, English choral music
of the 16th-19th centuries, hymnody, Handel. Interests in early American music,
keyboard music of J.S. Bach, 19th century nationalism, oratorio, German chorale.
Active as an organist and choral singer. Papers presented at local and national
conferences as well as to >numerous civic organizations. Membership in the American
Bach Society, Society for Seventeenth Century Music, American Musicological
Society. Contributor to Reader's Guide to Music.
I am interested in pursuing office in the local chapter as a means of offering service to the society and taking a more active role in its operations. I also view this as an opportunity to become better acquainted and work more closely with the officers and membership of the chapter.
Pamela
Whitcomb
Pamela Whitcomb is an editor
at A-R Editions, Inc., in Middleton, Wisconsin. She received her Ph. D. in musicology
from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000, and her research interests include
the music of the 12th and 13th centuries in Paris and northern France, as well
as the music of Beethoven and his contemporaries. She also teaches oboe and
performs regularly in chamber music ensembles. She served as a student representative
of the AMS Southwest Chapter in 1998-2000, and she is eager to have another
leadership opportunity in the society. As treasurer of the Midwest Chapter,
she will use her strong organizational knowledge and skills to maintain the
finances and membership records of the chapter.
Judy McCulloh
Judith McCulloh (Ph.D., Indiana University) is Assistant Director, Executive
Editor, and Director of Development at the University of Illinois Press. There
she serves as general editor of the Press's ongoing series Music in American
Life (now more than 100 volumes) and two new series, American Composers and
Women Composers. She has also served as first vice-president of the Sonneck
Society for American Music (1989-93) and as its representative to AMS's Committee
on the Publication of American Music (1989--), as treasurer of the Society for
Ethnomusicology (1982-86) and on the SEM council (1976-79, 1983-86), as president
of the American Folklore Society (1986-87) and on the AFS Executive Board (1974-79,
2001-3), and on the Board of Trustees of the American Folklife Center at the
Library of Congress (1986-2004). Her publications include "Writing for the World,"
Journal of American Folklore (1988); Ethnic Recordings in America (editor, 1982);
Folklore/Folklife (coeditor, 1984); Stars of Country Music (coeditor, 1975);
and music transcriptions of cowboy, hillbilly, and Anglo-/African-American songs
and fiddle tunes.
Matt
Steel
I am an Associate Professor of Music at Western Michigan University School of
Music. I teach a variety of courses in Music History, Musicology, and Non-Western
Music for graduate and undergraduate music majors, and I also direct the WMU
Collegium Musicum. My college education took place entirely at the University
of Michigan where I earned a B. M. E., M. M. E. and an M. A. and Ph. D. in Historical
Musicology. I was a member of the NEH Medieval Lyric Institute and for many
years chaired the Music section of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and
Letters. All of my published research is in the area of medieval secular song.
I have been an AMS member for over 25 years and have missed very few of the
annual meetings. Over the years, the Society has made several noteworthy strides
toward recognizing the diversity of its membership. I would like to see it continue
in this effort to become more inclusive. In particular, I would like to see
sessions and other creative forums for musicologists who, by necessity, are
generalists, and who must devote the bulk of their time to teaching a variety
of courses. I have seen that many of our colleagues working in smaller music
departments or understaffed larger institutions, where a premium is placed on
teaching over research, feel disenfranchised and avoid attending AMS meetings
or they drop their memberships altogether. As your Council Representative, I
will uphold the best traditions of the Society, but I will work to make it more
relevant to our generalist, and teaching-based colleagues.
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