I am Professor Emerita of Music at Ripon College, in Ripon, Wisconsin, where I taught piano, organ, harpsichord, and music history for 30 years.  My courses included surveys and topical classes like Music and War, Women in Music, and Music and Art. I also directed the Collegium Musicum, an ensemble of singers and instrumentalists specializing in early music, from 1989- 2015. During this tenure, I expanded the group’s repertoire to include music by women and non-Christian religious traditions.

Passionately dedicated to the education of my students, I received both the Severy and Underkofler Awards for teaching excellence in 1998 and 2016, respectively.  In 2000 and 2002, I was awarded curriculum development grants to create new topical music history courses that expanded coverage of music from non-Western traditions. I served as a Visiting Affiliated Scholar on the Associated Colleges of the Midwest program in Florence in 2012 and again in 2016, where I taught two interdisciplinary courses: Narration in Music and Art and Patronage, Gender, and Power in Early Modern Florence.

My research interests include interdisciplinary methods and practices in music and art and the influences of historical population migrations on musical cultures.  I have contributed new music and recordings reviews for The Diapason since 1998. I edited Music and War in the United States, (Routledge, 2019) and co-edited, with Dr. Charlotte DeMille, a Handbook of Music and Art for Bloomsbury Press (2024). 

Scholarly artistic grants from Ripon College enabled me to research historic organs in Italy, Germany, and Scotland. I have presented organ recitals as part of the Fondazione Organistica Elvira di Renna Nativitá (Pontecagnano Faiano,Italy), the Accademia d’Organo Giuseppe Gherardeschi Vespers Series (Pistoia, Italy), and the XV Festival Storici Organi della Valsesia (Piemonte, Italy) and the noon recital series at Reid Concert Hall (University of Edinburgh).  I have also performed across the United States, presenting programs in California, North Carolina, South Carolina, Wisconsin, and Michigan.

The recipient of a Faculty Career Enhancement Grant (FaCE) from the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, I studied composition with James Chaudoir (University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh) in 2006. My Three Scottish Folksongs for SSA voices, piano, and C instrument and Horo, My Brown-Haired Maiden for TTBB voices a cappella were published by Alliance Music that year. Subsequently, I have composed choral and organ music and arranged folksong settings that have been performed by choirs in church and school settings.

In addition to my ongoing scholarly pursuits, I am now enjoying an active retirement! I play the organ for services and sing in the choir of First Churches, volunteer as a lunch server at Manna Community Kitchen, and tutor international students in English at the Center for New Americans, all in Northampton, MA.