How to Join a Special Research Interest Group
If you’re a current member of NAfME, you may join a SRIG community on NAfME Amplify. Login using your membership record information and search “all communities” for the SRIG(s) in which you are interested. Many SRIGs also maintain Facebook groups you can request to join.
Questions? Contact Lisa Mink, Constituency Engagement Manager at lisam@nafme.org.
Adult & Community Music Education
The mission of the Adult & Community Music Education Special Research Interest Group (ACME SRIG) is to promote research that fosters active involvement in the making, creating, and studying of music in the diverse and complex communities in which we live and across the life span through the understanding of the unique learning characteristics of adults.
Chair: Ann Harrington
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida
amharrington@fsu.edu
Chair Elect: In Progress
3Es: Emotion, Expressivity, and Engagement
The purpose of this SRIG is to promote research concerning the ways in which people respond to music. Affective response research includes a variety of focus areas, such as affect, emotion, mood, aesthetics, attitudes, interests, tastes, preferences, appreciation, sensitivity to music, physical responses, and various types of psychological and physiological responses to music, as well as responses related to music teaching and learning.
Chair: Sangmi Kang
University of Rochester-Eastman School of Music
Rochester, New York
skang@esm.rochester.edu
Chair Elect: Josef Hanson
The University of Memphis
Memphis, TN
josef.hanson@memphis.edu
Accessible Music Education
Our mission is to promote the understanding of children with exceptionalities and provide opportunities for music educators and researchers to exchange information about and collaborate on strategies for teaching children with disabilities in all areas of music education.
Chair: Rachel Grimsby
Assistant Professor of Music Education
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, Virginia
rachelgrimsby@gmail.com
Chair-Elect: Jesse Rathgeber
Assistant Professor of Music Education
University of Wisconsin–Madison
jcrathgeber@wisc.edu
Assessment
The mission of the Assessment SRIG is to promote dialogue and improve practice related to a broad range of assessment issues pertinent to music education with respect to assessment, measurement, and evaluation. Any NAfME member who has an interest in assessment research and practice is encouraged to join the SRIG.
Chair: Dorothy Musselwhite-Thompson
Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama
djt0031@auburn.edu
Chair Elect: In Progress
Creativity
The Creativity SRIG seeks to clarify and communicate what is known about musical creativities and creative processes through supporting, disseminating and mapping current and emerging research. SRIG members engage in projects in research, conceptual, and pedagogical spaces, seeking the generation of new knowledge with the potential to directly impact the teaching and learning of music as it relates to all manner of creativity for individuals at every stage of the lifespan.
Chair: Jennifer Bugos
University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida
bugosj@usf.edu
Chair Elect: In Progress
Early Childhood Music
This SRIG encourages individual and collaborative research and its dissemination on topics related to early childhood music education. The EC SRIG sponsors research presentations in conjunction with its business meeting at biennial NAfME Music Research & Teacher Education National Conferences and in partnership with the Early Childhood Music & Movement Association (ECMMA).
Chair: Heather Waters
Adelphi University
Garden City, New York
hwaters@adelphi.edu
Chair Elect: Karen Salvador
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan
ksal@msu.edu
Gender and Sexuality
The mission of the Gender and Sexuality SRIG is to provide leadership advocacy, professional contacts, and a strong research agenda for gender researchers in music education.
Chair: William Sauerland
Purdue University
Fort Wayne, Indiana
sauerlaw@pfw.edu
Chair Elect: In Progress
History
The purpose of the History SRIG is to promote high-quality historical research in music education by facilitating the production, discussion, and dissemination of historical research related to music education and to contribute to unity and understanding within the music education profession by promoting historical awareness.
Chair: Elizabeth Chappell
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas
elizabeth.chappell@ttu.edu
Chair Elect: In Progress
Instructional Strategies
The purpose of this SRIG is to conduct and disseminate research related to instructional strategies used in the music classroom that positively affect students’ learning experiences. Research conducted in elementary, secondary, and/or university classrooms and rehearsal halls that includes investigation of specific instructional strategies will be discussed.
Chair: Edward R. McClellan
Loyola University
New Orleans, Louisiana
emcclell@loyno.edu
Chair Elect: In Progress
Learning and Development
The mission of the Learning and Development SRIG is to encourage, promote, and disseminate research and data based information concerning the development and/or maintenance of music skills and knowledge. Music skills are defined as those used in creating, performing, and/or listening to music at any age.
Chair: Kari Adams
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida
kadams6@fsu.edu
Chair Elect: In Progress
Perception and Cognition
This SRIG exposes its members to research and issues in music perception and cognition that furthers our knowledge of how music is experienced and understood. The intent is that this information advances musical pedagogy while revealing various complexities of the musical experience.
Chair: Melissa Brunkan
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
mbrunkan@uoregon.edu
Chair-Elect: In Progress
Philosophy
This SRIG aims to promote the production and dissemination of philosophical research relevant to music education; serve as a clearinghouse for information on scholarly work in the philosophy of music education; apply the tools of philosophical inquiry to improve music education; and encourage younger music education scholars to engage in philosophical inquiry.
Chair: Nasim Niknafs
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
nasim.niknafs@utoronto.ca
Chair Elect: William Coppola
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
wcoppola@usc.edu
Popular Music Education
Social Justice
This SRIG provides a forum through which members can contribute research leading to greater understanding, inclusivity, equity, and diversity in music education. Research will promote critical review and development of policy, music’s role in shaping societal impact, cultural sensitivity, development of interaction and relationships with music as a conduit, the role of music and music education in conflict resolution, music experiences that affect and shape black and brown lives, and racism and anti-racist pedagogies and policies.
Chair: Amy Lewis
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin
ablewis4@wisc.edu
Chair Elect: In Progress
Social Sciences
Social Sciences SRIG members examine structures, dynamics of society, and their impact upon patterns of human behavior and individual life changes. As music education researchers, we study the ways in which the forms of social structure, social categories, and social institutions affect human attitudes, behavior, and actions.
Chair: Tina Beveridge
George Mason University
Fairfax, Virginia
tbeverid@gmu.edu
jacob.berglin@wmich.edu
Chair-Elect: Julie Bannerman
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
jbannerman@ua.edu