Jere Humphreys, professor of music at Arizona State University (ASU), is a Fulbright Senior Scholar (2002) and Fulbright Senior Specialist (2010) who has presented 15 keynote and other major speeches worldwide. He is a prolific scholar with more than 160 publications with translations in six languages, including chapters and articles in books and journals, the New Grove Dictionary of American Music (2nd ed.), and Sage Directions in Educational Psychology --a republication of works by leading scholars in educational psychology and measurement (e.g., Bruner, Chronbach, Glaser, Nunnally, Piaget, Rogers, Stanley, and R. Thorndike). He received the prestigious MENC Senior Researcher Award from The National Association for Music Education (MENC) (2006), an MENC Citation of Excellence in Research (1985), and a Distinguished Service Award “for exceptional contributions to scholarship” from the MENC History Special Research Interest Group (2010).
As member of the Senior Editorial Board for the New Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition (Oxford University Press) Humphreys oversaw the commissioning and writing/revision of approximately 350 articles related to music education and music therapy. He is also a section editor for the Oxford Handbook of Music Education, and has served as editor of the Journal of Historical Research in Music Education and on the editorial committees of 14 education, music education, and music therapy journals. He has collaborated with the National Endowment for the Arts (consultant), European Union and U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (member of research teams), and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (reviewer).
He is a versatile researcher and teacher who applies historical, quantitative, philosophical, and sociological research methods to music education and arts business. He has had an extensive international career as a lecturer, consultant, and presenter in 30 states and 29 countries on six continents. He has served as a visiting lecturer/professor/endowed chair resident in several universities and countries, an academic specialist for the U.S. Information Agency, and an instructor and dissertation advisor for the Native American Educational Leadership (Ed.D.) program in the ASU Graduate School of Education. He has advised 32 doctoral dissertations and two master’s theses, several of which won university or national awards; and he has been a dissertation and thesis advisor, committee member, and external reviewer for institutions in Australia, Eastern and Western Europe, and North and South America. He has been nominated for ASU Professor of the Year, ASU Distinguished Mentor of Women, and ASU College of Fine Arts Distinguished Teacher of the Year awards.
Humphreys has served as a university accreditation evaluator in Canada and has held leadership positions in the College Music Society (Advisory Committee for Music Education), Fulbright Association Arizona Chapter (Board of Directors), Greek Society for Music Education (Scientific Advisor), International Society for Music Education (Financial Advisory Committee), MENC (Hall of Fame Board, Executive Committee for Research, Executive Committee for Teacher Education, National Chair History Special Research Interest Group, Chair MENC Centennial History Symposium), University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance Alumni Society (Board of Governors), and others. He has served on/chaired numerous school-, college-, and university-level personnel, grievance, and curriculum committees, and as faculty advisor for the ASU Habitat for Humanity Campus Chapter.
Outside of academia Humphreys is a vice-president of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee for the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, specializing in board personnel issues. Since 1998 he has been a construction team/house/block leader for dozens of Habitat for Humanity (HFH) builds in Phoenix and for Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter blitz projects, and he participated in a Global Village build in Northern Ireland. Currently he serves on the Board of Directors for HFH Macedonia, an award-winning affiliate he co-founded in 2002. In 2008 he was nominated for the ASU Woodside Sustained Community Service Annual Award.
A native of Tennessee, Humphreys holds a B.M. in music education from the University of Mississippi, an M.M. in clarinet performance from Florida State University, and a Ph.D. in music education from the University of Michigan. Before moving to ASU in 1987 he taught at West Virginia University and Huntingdon College (Montgomery, Alabama), in the Mississippi public schools, and served in the U.S. Army National Guard.
