Charles A. Elliott
Director, School of Music
Professor of Music
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
M.M.E., The University of Southern Mississippi
B.M.E., The University of Southern Mississippi
E-mail: Charles.Elliott@usm.edu
Phone: 601.266.5363
Dr. Charles A. Elliott was named director of the School of Music at The University of Southern Mississippi in August 1998. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Elliott served as the coordinator of music education at Southern Miss from 1996 and was previously at the University of South Carolina. He was assistant professor of music education/music therapy at the University of Kansas. He has served as a public school music teacher in both Mississippi and Texas.
Dr. Elliott completed his bachelor's and master's in music education at Southern Miss and his Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin. His research has been published in all major music education journals, and he has contributed chapters to five books. Dr. Elliott has been invited to present his research at music conferences on the regional, national, and international levels regularly for the past 25 years. He presented at the International Society for Music Education Conference in Amsterdam, in July 1996, and in Pretoria, South Africa, in 1998.