Recruiting grad students in ethno-/musicology for Fall 2025!

Name: Recruiting grad students in ethno-/musicology for Fall 2025!
Start: 2025-05-01T17:00:00-05:00
Location: Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, United States

Schedule

Thu, 01 May, 2025 at 05:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, United States | Lubbock, TX

Duties include assisting with the Musicology division’s teaching mission. Opportunities for instruction to those with demonstrated experience in teaching. Ability to assist in the mission of the Center for Latin American Music, Arts, and Cultural Studies and of the Vernacular Music Center, and/or other department responsibilities.
WE ARE PARTICULARLY INTERESTED TO RECRUIT GRAD STUDENTS--INCLUDING DANCE SPECIALISTS!--WHO CAN ASSIST IN THE MISSION OF THE TTU VERNACULAR MUSIC CENTER. See https://www.depts.ttu.edu/music/community/centers/vernacular-music/
Stipends for Graduate Assistants are available to qualifying Fine Arts Doctoral Program (Ph.D.) and Master of Music (MM) students, to be paid as a salary in monthly installments from October through June. Master’s stipend: $10,500.00; Ph.D. stipend $12,500.00. Additional fellowships and scholarships may be available for select students.
Teaching Assistant positions provide significant reductions in all but a portion of tuition and fees, as well as Texas Resident status. Fees vary depending on enrollment.
In-state tuition and eligibility for medical insurance at a reduced rate.
TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY is a leading public university with an enrollment of over 40,000 students. The School of Music, part of the J.T. & Margaret Talkington College of Visual & Performing Arts, has a full-time faculty of 70, enrolling approximately 500 students. Graduate degrees offered include the Master of Music (Performance, Conducting, Composition, String Pedagogy, Piano Pedagogy, Collaborative Piano, Music Theory, Musicology), Master of Music Education, Doctor of Musical Arts, PhD in Music Education, and PhD in Fine Arts with tracks in Music Theory, Musicology, Inter-Arts, and Administration.
The members of the Musicology faculty include widely-published researchers and expert teachers in all eras and genres of European concert musics, as well as popular, historical, and vernacular music styles; see www.music.ttu.edu “Programs – Musicology” for individual bios. Members of the Musicology student body regularly present at regional, national, and international conferences, and are likewise encouraged to participate in music-making and collaborative artistic endeavors.
Lubbock is a major cultural center of West Texas with a population of nearly 300,000 that supports the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra, Lubbock Youth Orchestras, Ballet Lubbock, the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, the state-of-the-art Buddy Holly Hall for the Performing Arts and Sciences, numerous galleries, and a variety of other music, dance, and theatre performance organizations and venues.
Lubbock offers a quality living experience with a semi-arid climate and housing costs below the national average.
This position is pending the availability of funding for the 2025- 2026 academic year and at the time of the appointment.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Angela Mariani Head of Musicology 806.742.2270
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Clark Preston, Lead Academic Advisor 806.834.3279
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