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Dr. Janice N. Killian currently serves and Professor and Chair of Music Education at Texas Tech
University in Lubbock, Texas where she teaches doctoral, masters, and undergraduate music education
majors, and conducts music education research. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas Tech she served
as head of the Music Program at Texas Woman's University.
Killian is an experienced public school educators focusing primarily on the junior high choral experiences
throughout her career, teaching grades K-12 in Kansas, Connecticut, Minnesota and Texas. She is recipient
of numerous teaching and research awards, including the prestigious Mary Mason Lyons prize for outstanding
teaching, research and service at Texas Woman's University.
Killian holds the Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, the masters from the University of Connecticut
and bachelors from the University of Kansas. She is past head of the College Division of the Texas Music
Educators Association, chairs the statewide taskforce on Music Teacher Recruitment and Retention, and serves
or has served on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Research in Music Education, International
Music Research, the International Journal of Research in Choral Singing and Texas Music Education Research.
In 2008 she was elected to serve on the Music Education Research Council, MENC's oversight body for issues
involving research.
Dr. Killian's research appears in the Journal of Research in Music Education, Bulletin of the Council of
Research in Music Education, UPDATE: Applications of Research in Music Education and elsewhere on the topics
of the boy's changing voice, teacher preparation and retention, and topics related to choral music. A frequent
presenter at national conferences, she is known for her ability to translate research issues into practitioner
terminology. Killian frequently serves as a choral clinician and adjudicators, and is the co-author of Essential
Elements for Choir, a textbook series for grades 6-12 choirs published by Hal Leonard, and is senior author of the
Teacher Resource Kit for Essential Elements for Choir.
Dr. Killian may be reached via email at:
Janice.Killian@ttu.edu.
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