Christine Smith Dorey

Lecturer in Music History & Literature

Ph.D. in Musicology, University of Kentucky
M.M. in Vocal Performance, University of Arizona
B.M.E., The Ohio State University

Christine Smith Dorey has degrees in musicology, vocal performance and music education and has taught at colleges and universities throughout the United States. Her primary research areas are late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century opera; world music; American popular music and musical theatre; and explorations of music, the mind and the brain. A generalist who does numerous professional and community presentations on music, she believes that music is essential to being human.