Jere Humphreys, professor of music at Arizona State University (ASU), is the contributing editor for music education for the New Grove Dictionary of American Music (2nd ed.) and a section editor for the Oxford Handbook of Music Education, both forthcoming from Oxford University Press. He has served as editor of the Journal of Historical Research in Music Education and on the editorial committees of thirteen national and international journals. He has also been a reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and numerous scholarly presses, and a consultant and research team member for the National Endowment for the Arts and the European Union. One of the most prolific scholars in his field with more than 100 publications and reprints in six languages, he is a Senior Fulbright Scholar, winner of the prestigious biennial MENC Senior Researcher Award from the National Association for Music Education (MENC), and recipient of the MENC Citation of Excellence in Research.

Humphreys is a versatile researcher and teacher who applies historical, quantitative, philosophical, and sociological research methods to music education and arts business. He has lectured, consulted, and presented keynote and other addresses in 28 countries on six continents and more than half the North American states and provinces. He has also served as a dissertation and thesis advisor, committee member, and reviewer for institutions in Australia, Eastern and Western Europe, and North and South America. He has advised 29 doctoral dissertations (55% historical, 41% quantitative, 3% other) and two master’s theses, several of which won university and national awards. He has served as a visiting professor in Argentina, Cyprus, Macedonia, and the Navajo Nation (an Ed.D. program through the ASU Mary Lou Fulton College of Education); an Endowed Chair Resident at the University of Alabama; and an Academic Specialist for the U.S. Department of State. He has been nominated for ASU Professor of the Year, ASU Distinguished Mentor of Women, and ASU College of Fine Arts Distinguished Teacher of the Year awards.

Humphreys has held leadership positions in the College Music Society, Greek Society for Music Education, International Society for Music Education, MENC, and other organizations, mostly related to finance, hall of fame, research, and teacher education. He has been a university accreditation evaluator in Canada and currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Arizona Chapter of The Fulbright Association. He has served on and chaired numerous personnel- and curriculum-related committees, including several at the university level, and he is the faculty advisor for the ASU Habitat for Humanity Campus Chapter. In recognition of his research, teaching, and service, he is listed in the Marquis Who’s Who in America and Whos Who in American Education.

Outside of academia Humphreys serves on the Board of Directors for the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona. He has also contributed for over a decade to Habitat for Humanity (HFH) construction and fundraising projects in the U.S. and internationally: serving as the construction house leader or co-leader for fourteen houses in Phoenix and Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter blitz builds, supervising another fourteen builds as a block leader, and participating in a Global Village build in Belfast, Northern Ireland. In 2002 he collaborated with HFH founding president Millard Fuller to establish HFH Macedonia, and he continues on that award-winning affiliate’s Assembly and Board of Directors. In 2008 he was nominated for the ASU Woodside Sustained Community Service Annual Award.

A native of Tennessee, Humphreys holds a B.M. in music education from the University of Mississippi, an M.M. in clarinet performance from Florida State University, and a Ph.D. in music education from the University of Michigan. Before moving to ASU in 1987 he taught at West Virginia University and Huntingdon College (Montgomery, Alabama), in the Mississippi public schools, and served in the U.S. Army National Guard.

For more information, including a curriculum vitae, see www.public.asu.edu/~aajth.