Felicia M. Miyakawa, Ph.D.

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Curriculum vitae

Dissertation committee: Jeffrey Magee (chair), J. Peter Burkholder, Massimo Ossi, and Portia K. Maultsby
Ph. D. minor in African American Studies

Assistant Professor of Musicology, Middle Tennessee State University (fall 2004-present)
- Undergraduate courses include Introduction to Music (MUS 1030 and Honors), History of Rock and Roll (MUHL 3140), Hip-hop Music and Culture (MUS 4000), Music History III (MUHL 2610), Music History IV (MUHL 2620), 17th and 18th Century Music (MUHL 4630 / 5630), 19th Century Music (MUHL 4640 / 5640), 20th Century Music (MUHL 4650 / 6040), and American Music (MUHL 4660 / 5660)
- Graduate courses include Music History Survey (MUHL 5070), Bibliography and Research (MUS 6620), Music Seminar: Gershwin in Context (MUS 6630, spring 2006), and Music Seminar: Gender and the Musical Canon (MUS 6630, spring 2008)
- Member of the Graduate Faculty; Member of the Honors College; Women’s Studies Faculty
Music Instructor, West Valley College (Spring 2004)

Courses taught include M541 and M542, Indiana University's two-semester Music History Review for Graduate Students

courses taught include M401 and M402, Indiana University's two-semester undergraduate Music History and Literature survey
faculty supervisors include J. Peter Burkholder, Thomas J. Mathiesen, Matthew Balensuela, and Jeffrey Magee

Middle Tennessee State University President's Commission on the Status of Women Curriculum Integration Grant (summer 2008).
Middle Tennessee State University Faculty Research and Creative Activity Award for “Modern Motherless (and Fatherless) Children: Revisiting Samuel Floyd’s ‘Sometimes’ Trope” (2007-2008)
Pi Kappa Lamda
Faculty Research and Creative Activity Award, Middle Tennessee State University (summer 2005)
Dissertation Year Fellowship, Indiana University, Department of Musicology (2001-2002)
Jack and Linda Gill Foundation Grant (2001)
Freda and Walter Kaufmann Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Contributions by a Graduate Student to the Discipline (Spring 2000)
Alumni Award, Mu Phi Epsilon (Spring 1995)
Musicological Research Award, Mu Phi Epsilon (Fall 1994)
Regional Scholarship Winner, National Italian American Foundation (Fall 1994)
Scholarship in Music Award, Linfield College (Spring 1994)

Committee Member, Society for American Music's Wiley Housewright Dissertation Award, 2008
MTSU Women’s Studies Council, 2008-present
2008 BMI John Lennon Scholarship Committee, state of Tennessee
Committee Member, Educational Programs Committee, MTSU School of Music (2007-2009)
Committee Member, Funding for Liberal Arts Grant-Writers (FLAG), MTSU College of Liberal Arts (2007-present)
Panelist, American Studies, National Endowment for the Humanities (August 2005)
Program Committee Member, College of Liberal Arts Showcase of Best Practices Day, Middle Tennessee State University (fall 2005-spring 2006)
Program Committee, Center for Popular Music's 20th Anniversary Celebration (2005)
Public Relations Chair, Society for American Music (August 2004-October 2005)
Committee member, Public Relations, Society for American Music (October 2005-)
Web Editorial Board, Society for American Music (2003-2005)
"Re-imagining a Career in Musicology," panel organized and co-chaired for the 28th Annual Conference of the Society for American Music (Lexington, 2002)
Co-chair, Student Forum, Society for American Music (2001-2003)
Associate Instructor Resource Committee, Indiana University (Spring 2000)
Musicology Search and Screen Committee, Student Representative (1999-2001)
Co-president of the Indiana University Graduate Musicology Association (1996-1998)

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Snail mail: School of Music, Middle Tennessee State University, MTSU P. O. Box 47, Murfreesboro, TN 37132

Site last updated 28 March 2008