Prof. Patricia Shehan Campbell, Ph.D.

Patricia Shehan Campbell is Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington School of Music.

She chairs the Education Committee for Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, and is founder of the World Music Pedagogy courses that have been ongoing for almost two decades. She serves on the board of the Association for Cultural Equity, and chairs Chamwino Connect, an NGO in support of the sustainability of Wagogo cultural heritage in central Tanzania.

Campbell's publications include Lessons from the World (1991), Music in Cultural Context (1994), Songs in Their Heads (1998, 2010), Teaching Music Globally (2004), Redefining Undergraduate Music Studies in an Age of Change (2017), Music Education and Diversity (2018), Music in Childhood (2018, 4th edition). Furthermore, she is author-editor of Oxford’s Global Music series, the Routledge World Music Pedagogy series, and the Oxford Handbook of Children’s Musical Cultures (2013).

Patricia Shehan Campbell is a Visiting Fellow at CAS from May to June 2024 at the invitation of Prof. Dr. Alexandra Kertz-Welzel. On 13 June she participates in the panel discussion on “Music and Multiculturalism in a Global Society”.