Janice Killian
Dr. Janice Killian currently serves as Professor and Chair
of Music Education in the School of Music at Texas Tech
University in Lubbock, Texas where she teaches doctoral,
masters, and undergraduate music education majors, and
conducts music education research.
A South Dakota native, she earned the Bachelor in
Music Education at the University of Kansas, the MA at the
University of Connecticut, and the PhD at The University of
Texas-Austin.
Killian is an experienced public school
educator focusing primarily on the junior high choral
experience, teaching grades K-12 in Kansas, Connecticut,
Minnesota and Texas as well as in higher education at the State
University of New York-Buffalo, and Texas Woman’s University,
where she chaired the music department. She is recipient of
numerous teaching and research awards, including the Mary Mason
Lyons prize for outstanding teaching, research and service at
Texas Woman's University, the 2010 Barnie E. Rushing, Jr.
Faculty Distinguished Research Award from Texas Tech’s College
of Visual and Performing Arts, and in 2011 the prestigious
Chancellor’s Council Distinguished Teaching Award from Texas
Tech.
Killian serves as chair of the Society for
Research in Music Education, chairs the Executive Committee for
Music Education Research, the oversight body of all matters
involving research for the National Association for Music
Education (NAfME).
She is former head of the College Division of the Texas Music
Educators Association.
Janice Killian is academic editor-in-chief
of the Journal of Music
Teacher Education, the premier journal in music education
related to music teacher preparation. The editor of the
Journal of Music Teacher
Education authors an editorial for each issue, guides the
nine-person editorial peer review board, and makes all final
publication decisions involving the
JMTE. The editor
serves as liaison between NAfME and Sage Publications, publisher
of all NAfME journals, acts as representative of JMTE to the
National Executive Board of NAfME and sits on the Executive
Board of the Society for Music Teacher Education, the governing
body of JMTE. The
JMTE editor serves a
six-year term, and in this long-term leadership position, has
both the opportunity and the responsibility to influence
scholarship related to music teacher preparation for the entire
music education profession.
Killian has served on numerous national and
international editorial review boards including
Journal of Research in
Music Education, International Journal of Research in Choral
Singing, Music Education Research International, Psychology of
Music, and Texas Music Education Research. She is an invited
member of the International Symposium for Research in Music
Behavior. Killian publishes frequently in major music education
research journals including:
Journal of Research in Music Education, Update: Applications of Research
for Music Education, Bulletin of the Council for Research on
Music Education, Journal of Music Teacher Education, and
Texas Music Education Research Reports as well as practitioner
publications, on the topics of the adolescent voice and music
educator preparation.
She is co-author of
Essential Elements for Choir, a textbook series for grades
6-12 choirs published by Hal Leonard, and senior author of the
Teacher Resource Kit for
Essential Elements for Choir.
Based on her extensive K-12 teaching
experience, Killian is particularly well known for her ability
to translate research results to music education practitioners.
Thus she is in demand as a presenter at state, national
and international music education venues.
Most notably, due to the efforts of the music education
team at Texas Tech, students graduating with music education
degrees have achieved remarkable success as K-12 educators,
church musicians, and university professors.
Dr. Killian may be reached via email at: Janice.Killian@ttu.edu.