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Faculty Successes

Fall 2006

Melanie Bookout was promoted to associate professor of music history with tenure in fall 2006. She received a B.M. from Mississippi College, an M.M. from Northwestern University, and a Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. Her dissertation on the 12 tone music of Anton Webern won the Arts and Humanities Best Dissertation Award.

Bookout is active in both the music and literary worlds, frequently performing early music (viola da gamba); performing and directing local, national, and regional concerts; and publishing poetry in publications such as Ribot, Seventh Moon, and Potes and Poets Press. She is a member of the Viola da Gamba Society of America and the American Musicological Society.

Bookout is a member of the IPFW Honors Program faculty and instructs musicology, early instruments, music history, literature, and appreciation.


Nancy Jackson, director of music therapy, received a Faculty Development Grant from the IPFW College of Visual and Performing Arts to continue training in the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery through the Mid- Atlantic Training Institute Inc. She presented the State of Music Therapy and Medicine Research at the annual symposium of the research group on Music and Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Jackson presented sessions on her research in professional supervision at both the Great Lakes Region of AMTA in Detroit, Mich., and the Canadian Association for Music Therapy annual conference in Windsor, Ontario, in 2006.


Barbara Resch was the first recipient of the Student’s Choice Award for Teaching Excellence sponsored by the Indiana Purdue Student Government Association (IPSGA). She also received the VPA Faculty Development Fund Grant for Research and Teaching. Resch attended the Learning Brain Conference in Orlando, Fla.


Associate Professor Linda M. Wright-Bower was the recipient of a Faculty Development Grant from the IPFW College of Visual and Performing Arts and the 2006 Service Award from the Great Lakes Region of the American Music Therapy Association for distinguished contributions to the region. She attended an intensive training institute at Colorado State University to study neurological music therapy. As a member of the Robert Unkefer Neurological Music Therapy Institute, she may advance the use of rhythm and special techniques with individuals who have had strokes, Parkinson’s Disease, developmental disabilities, and types of Aphasia.