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List of Professors

Name Years at Michigansort icon Position

Hanns Pick

1927 - 1954
Professor of Violoncello

Otto Jacob Stahl

1928 - 1951
Professor of Music (Theory)

Glenn Douglas McGeoch

1929 - 1972
Professor of History of Music, Music Literature & Criticism

Guy Chambers Filkins

1934 - 1952
Assistant Professor of Music (Theory)

Marion Emmett McArtor

1940 - 1956
Assistant Professor of Music (Theory)

John Henry Lowell

1944 - 1970
Professor of Music (Theory)

Frank S Stillings


1954 - 1962
Associate Professor of Music Theory

Wallace T Berry


1957 - 1977
Professor of Music Theory

Ellwoods S. Derr Jr.

1962 - 2007
Professor of Music (Theory)

Edward M. Chudacoff

1965 - 1996
Professor of Music (Theory)

Ralph B. Lewis

1965 - 1998
Professor of Music (Theory)

James E. Dapogny

1966 - 2006
Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Music (Theory)

Richmond H. Browne

1968 - 1996
Professor of Music (Theory)

James A. Winn

1983 - 1998
Professor of English Language and Literature

Andrew W. Mead

1983 - 2013
Professor of Music - Music Theory

Walter T. Everett

1989 - 2022
Professor of Music

Marion A. Guck

1996 - 2019
Professor of Music

Alan Robert Gosman

2006 - 2014
Associate Professor