Patricia Shehan Campbell

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 (JRME), 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.

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