Rate My Professor Jeananne Nichols

Dr. Nichols teaches courses in music curriculum and methods at Western Carolina University and advises doctoral research projects in music education for Boston University. Her research interests involve narrative inquiry and other qualitative research designs to highlight the lived experiences of persons whose voices may otherwise be muted in music and music education discourses. Specific projects include participatory music experiences with incarcerated youth, the United States Air Force WAF Band, and the experiences of LGBTQ students in school music. Her work has been published in the Journal of Research in Music Education, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Research Studies in Music Education, Music Educators Journal, Mountain Lake Reader, and International Journal of Education and the Arts. Key publications include “Rie’s Story, Ryan’s Journey: Music in the Life of a Transgender Student” (Journal of Research in Music Education, 2013), co-editorship of The Sage Handbook of School Music Education (2024), and the chapter “Into the Wild Blue Yonder: A History of the US WAF Band, 1949-1961.” She is a member of the Research Studies in Music Education editorial board and has served as guest editor for two issues of the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education. She has presented her research throughout the United States and internationally in Canada, China, France, Greece, Norway, and the United Kingdom.