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Shelley Davis
Associate Professor, Musicology
Musicology & Ethnomusicology Division
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., New York University
Besides writing numerous scholarly articles for international dictionaries and refereed journals, Dr. Davis is co-author of Music, a Multicultural Experience (Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co.). A piano student of renowned Russian teacher Isabelle Vengerova, Professor Davis was a performer before turning to musicological scholarship at NYU. As associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Music, he has directed and co-directed international festival-conferences honoring Benjamin Britten (1993), Henry Purcell (1995), Sergei Rachmaninoff (1998), and Aaron Copland (2000), for which he also served as editor of festival-conference program books. For six years Professor Davis chaired the School's Division of musicology_and_ethnomusicology/Ethnomusicology and twice chaired the Capital Chapter of the American Musicological Society.
As an administrator, Dr. Davis has been a frequent member and chair of University boards, councils and committees including the University Senate, Undergraduate CORE Committee, and Phi Beta Kappa committees. A member of the University Senate for ten years, he was elected in 2000 to the Senate‘s Executive Committee.
