Jelena Simonović Schiff, Associate Professor of Music History, Musicology coordinator, holds doctoral degree in Music Education with emphasis on music history pedagogy from Boston University (dissertation mentor Dr. Jere Humphreys, ASU), MA in Music from Portland State University, and MA and BA in Musicology from the School of Music, University of Arts, Belgrade, Serbia. Her dissertation, in the field of music history pedagogy, examined the content transformation of the Norton Anthology of Western Music (1980-2009) and the ensuing ways music history has been taught in the United States.
She presented at international conferences in Madrid (Spain), Bristol (UK), Kelowna and Vancouver (Canada), and national and regional conferences of NAfME History Special Research Interest Group, the Pedagogy Study Group of the American Musicological Society, and CMS in Chattanooga, TN, Oklahoma City, OK, Albany, GA, Conway, SC, Terre Haute, IN, Moscow, ID, and Seattle, WA. Her publications include book chapters and articles on “Claude V. Palisca as Music Educator: The Yale Seminar on Music Education and the Norton Anthology of Western Music” co-authored with Jere Humpreys, about Yugoslav (Croatian) composer Petar Bergamo (published in Serbia and Croatia in English and Serbian/Croatian), “Course Development Strategies for e-Learning in Music Disciplines” (Reading, United Kingdom), book reviews (Idyllwild, California), and a number of newspaper articles and critiques.
Jelena teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Music History, Music Research Methods, World Musics, and the Music of the Beatles.