research AND SCHOLARLY WRITING
research AND SCHOLARLY WRITING
Doctoral Dissertation, Auburn University 2025
Undergraduate and Graduate String Instrumentalists’ Approaches to Learning New Solo Repertoire: Descriptive Case Studies of Deliberate Practice Using the Fitts and Posner Model of Skill Learning, Auburn University (Auburn, AL)
Presented at the College Music Society Mid-Atlantic Chapter Conference in Petersburg, VA on March 21, 2026 and at the PMEA Annual Conference at the Kalahari Convention Center Poconos on April 23 and 24, 2026.
Educational Specialist Field Research Project, Auburn University 2025
A Qualitative Study of High School String Musicians’ Approaches to Learning New Music: An Exploration of Deliberate Practice Using the Fitts and Posner Model of Skill Learning, College Music Society Northeastern Chapter Conference, March 23-24 (Kutztown, PA)
Presented at the College Music Society Northeast Chapter Conference in Kutztown PA on March 24, 2024, and at the Biennial NAfME Music Research and Teacher Education Conference in Atlanta, GA on September 25-28, 2024.
Winner of the 2024 College Music Society Northeast Chapter Diane W. Follett Award for Outstanding Student Scholarship
Nature is a Luxury
https://sustain.auburn.edu/nature-is-a-luxury/
Winner of the 2024 Auburn University Sustainability Essay Contest, graduate division
Hatha Yoga as a Tool for the Prevention of Performance-Related Musculoskeletal Problems in String Players
https://doi.org/10.1177/000313130505500109
Published in the American String Teacher Journal, Volume 55, Issue 1 (2005)