Kevin Schattenkirk
Lecturer in Music and Honors Faculty

Doctorate in Ethnomusicology — University of Western Australia, Perth (2019)

Master’s in Music History — University of Washington, Seattle (2010)

Master’s in Ethnomusicology — University of Washington, Seattle (2008)

My primary area of research focus is the LGBTQ+ choral movement, emerging in the mid-1970s and rapidly expanding in the time since. I am currently working on a book on LGBTQ+ choruses, with a project publication date of late-2027/early-2028. A second area of focus includes popular music studies and marginalized voices. My work sits nicely at the intersection of gender and sexuality, race, class, identity and community formation, with methodological approaches encompassing music analysis, sound studies, critical theory, and ethnographic methods.

I have presented my research at annual meetings of Society for Ethnomusicology, National Collegiate Honors Council, American Musicological Society, National Women’s Studies Association, and Musicological Society for Australia. Published articles and book reviews appear in Ethnomusicology and MusiCultures. And, my research has been featured on the syndicate radio program With Good Reason (in 2023), in a March 2025 concert program by Mississauga Festival Family of Choirs (in Toronto, Ontario), and other interviews and invited public speaking opportunities.

In 2017, I joined the Marcia Herndon Prize committee for best article submission through the Gender & Sexuality Taskforce special interest group in Society for Ethnomusicology. From 2018-2020, I served as the committee chair. This is among the highlights of my ongoing interest in service to the field.

Alongside Dr. Erin Waggoner (Communication Studies), Dr. Hannah Dudley-Shotwell (Cormier Honors College and History & Philosophy), and Natalie Browning (Greenwood Library), I co-teach CTZN 366 Place and Voice, a Brock Experiences course in San Francisco. A co-authored book chapter on our course will appear in an upcoming festschrift for Dr. Bernice Braid and her groundbreaking Place as Text work.

In the classroom, I am motivated by a desire to produce scholars that engage with the world. Since joining the faculty of the Cormier Honors College and Music Department in August 2020, courses I regularly teach include:

• CTZN 110 Inquiry Into Citizenship
• CTZN 410 Symposium for the Common Good
• MUSC 222 History of Rock
• MUSC 225 Intro to World Music
• MUSC 325 Music as an Agent of Change
• WGST 313 Gender & Sexuality in Popular Music & Art