Matthew D. Thibeault is Associate Professorof the Department of Cultural and Creative Arts.Thibeault received his BME in music education and psychology at Florida State University before completing MA and Ph.D. degrees in Curriculum Studies and Teacher Education at Stanford University. He taught general music in the United States of America in California public schools at the elementary and high school level. He previously taught at San José State University, the University of Illinois, and the University of Florida.

Thibeault was a 2012-13 Faculty Fellow at the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities and the 2013 recipient of the Outstanding Emerging Researcher Award presented by the Center for Music Education Research at the University of South Florida. He serves on the editorial or advisory boards ofAction, Criticism and Theory for Music Education, TheBulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, TheInternational Journal of Education & the Arts,Music Educators Journal, theMedia Journal of Music Education, and theJournal of Music, Technology, and Education. From 2010–14General Music Todaypublished his column for practitioners, “Secondary Scene.” Thibeault is Chair-elect for the NAfME Philosophy SRIG.

• Technology and media in music education
• Participatory music
• Curriculum
• General music

A complete list of publications, with links to online versions, is available here: https://matthewthibeault.com/publications/

• Media and technology in music education
• General music
• Curriculum
• Participatory music education
• Popular music education

2017 - External Examiner of PhD thesis, University of Western Australia

2014-20 Chair-elect, chair, and past-chair for the Philosophy Special Research Interest Group, National Association for Music Education (NAfME), USA

2014–17 Adjunct Assistant professor, University of Florida, Gainesville (online Masters of Music Education programme)

2007–14 Assistant professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (music education, courtesy appointment in Curriculum and Instruction)