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Department of Music Education Faculty

Steven Moser, Ph.D. - Professor of Music - Associate Dean, College of Arts & Letters

Steven Moser holds the rank of Professor in the School of Music. Currently Associate Dean for Administration in the College of Arts and Letters, he concurrently serves in the School of Music as a professor for undergraduate and graduate conducting and music education classes.

From 1990 to 2002, Dr. Moser served as director of The Pride of Mississippi marching band and was the conductor/director of the Symphonic Winds until 2005. Dr. Moser also served as associate director of the School of Music from 2002-2005. Prior to his 1990 appointment at Southern Miss, Dr. Moser was the assistant director of bands/marching band director in the College of Fine Arts at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Jennifer Shank, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Music

Jennifer Shank received her Ph.D. in music education from The University of Kentucky. Prior to her appointment at Southern Miss, she held teaching positions at The University of Kentucky, Manassas Park High School in Manassas, Va., and St. Joseph School in Martinsburg, W.Va. Dr. Shank holds a B.A. in secondary education from Shepherd College and a M.M. from The University of Kentucky.

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Mohamad Schuman, M.M.E. -  Assistant Professor of Music

Mohamad Schuman has served as Director of Bands at Stone High School and Stone Middle School since 1993.  During this time his bands have established a reputation for excellence throughout the United States.  Bands under Mr. Schuman’s direction have appeared at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic, The University of Southern Mississippi All-South Conductor’s Conference, The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, and the 2005 Inaugural Parade for President George W. Bush.

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Anita Davis, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Music

, Ph.D., is an accomplished musician, educator and researcher and Director of the Center for Research in Creative Learning. As Founding Director of the Center, she leads the university in collaborative partnerships between programs emphasizing the arts and sciences and agencies that support arts and science education in order to advance and apply research in learning. Designed to support University faculty with opportunities for interdisciplinary scholarship focused on non-traditional educational practices, school-based partnership activities are externally supported in response to the urgent national call for improving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics skills embedded in learning activities that are contextual, artful, and meaningful. As a multi-disciplinary, research-based center, CRCL resides in the College of Science and Technology with support from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development.

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John Flanery, M.M.E. - Assistant Professor of Music

John Flanery is in his second year as Assistant Director of Choral Activities at The University of Southern Mississippi.  He recently completed course work for the Doctoral of Music Arts in Choral Conducting at The University of Kentucky.  He holds a Bachelor of Music Education from Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa and a master’s degree in choral conducting from The University of Kentucky. 

At Southern Miss, John teaches undergraduate choral conducting, choral literature and choral methods, directs the Concert Choir and Southern Miss Gulf Coast Civic Chorale, and assists with many other ensembles and duties.

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