Rachel Brashier is the Director of Music Education at the
University of Wisconsin -Stevens Point. Originally from Illinois, she earned her
Bachelors in Music Performance and Education at Eastern Illinois University and
then taught K-12 music (general, vocal, and instrumental) full time in the
Chicago area for over 12 years. She also holds Masters degrees in Musicology
from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and in Ethnomusicology from the
Eastman School of Music, and completed her PhD in Music Education at the Eastman
School of Music. She served as a Visiting Professor of Music Education at
Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ, and as an Assistant Professor of
Music Education at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ. She is currently doing
research in the areas of music teacher identity development, informal music
learning, and embodied musiking in communities of praxis. Dr. Brashier is
interested in curriculum development, and has recently taught music methods
courses as well as courses focused on social justice and critical pedagogy
courses in music education.
Dr. Brashier is also a contralto and trained Greek Orthodox
chanter who performs regularly. She is scheduled to present at the Narrative
Inquiry in Music Conference 6 in Boston this May, and has presented at Narrative
Inquiry in Music Conferences, the Society for Music Teacher Education
Symposium, Mountain Lake Conferences, MayDay, the International Symposium on
the Sociology of Music Education, the Society for Ethnomusicology Niagara
Conference, the Feminist Theory in Music Conference, and the New York and New
Jersey School Music Associations. She is regularly a clinician for school
choirs of all ages, and has also conducted clinics for the Mid-Eastern
Federation of Greek Orthodox Church Musicians and at the PEAK festival in
Upstate NY. Dr. Brashier holds the T. Temple Tuttle Prize (Society for
Ethnomusicology). In addition to her dissertation Identity Politics and
Politics of Identity: A Semiotic Approach to the Negotiation and Contestation
of Music Teacher Identity among Early Career Music Teachers (2019), has
published in ACT (2016) and Ethnomusicology Review (2014).
Zoom link: https://uwsp.zoom.us/my/rachel.brashier