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List of Professors
| Name |
Years at Michigan |
Position | |
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Arthur Hackett |
1930 - 1954 | Professor of Music (Voice) |
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Laura Littlefield |
1930 - 1934 | Assistant Professor of Music (Voice) |
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Thelma Bertha Lewis |
1930 - 1967 | Professor of Music |
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James Hamilton |
1933 - 1937 | Assistant Professor of Music (Voice) |
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Hardin Arthur Van Deursen |
1937 - 1947 | Assistant Professor of Music (Voice) |
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Harold A. Haugh |
1948 - 1976 | Professor of Music (Voice) |
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Josef Blatt |
1953 - 1976 |
Professor of Music Director of University Orchestras Director of Opera Productions |
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Chase Baromeo |
1954 - 1962 | Professor of Voice |
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Ralph Eugene Bossart |
1954 - 1984 | Professor of Music (Vocal and Accompanying) |
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Frances Greer |
1954 - 1962 | Associate Professor of Voice |
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Millard Hyle Cates |
1958 - 1968 | Professor of Voice |
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Richard D Miller |
1958 - 1962 | Associate Professor of Music |
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Ralph Herbert |
1961 - 1980 |
Professor of Music (Opera) Director of Opera Staging |
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John M. McCollum |
1962 - 1988 | Professor of Music (Voice) |
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Eva Likova-Baca |
1966 - 1983 | Professor of Voice |
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Rosemary Russell |
1966 - 2003 | Professor of Music (Voice) |
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Katherine E. Hilgenberg |
1968 - 1986 | Associate Professor of Music (Voice and Musical Theatre) |
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Willis C. Patterson |
1968 - 1999 |
Professor of Music Associate Dean in the School of Music |
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Leslie W. Guinn |
1971 - 2000 | Professor of Music (Voice) |
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Lorna M. Haywood |
1982 - 2002 | Professor of Voice |
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Martha J. Sheil |
1985 - 2015 | Associate Professor of Music (Voice) |
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George I. Shirley |
1987 - 2007 | Joseph Edgar Maddy Distinguished University Professor of Music (Voice) |
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Clarence Earl Coleman Jr. |
1988 - 1996 | Associate Professor of Music (Voice) |
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Karen S. Lykes |
1989 - 1995 | Assistant Professor of Music (Voice) |
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Naomi A. Andre |
1995 - 2022 | Professor of Afroamerican & African Studies, Women & Gender Studies, Residential College |
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Melody Racine |
1995 - 2023 |
Associate Professor of Music Interim Dean of School of Music, Theatre & Dance 2017-2018 |
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Randall R. Smith |
1999 - 2003 | Assistant Professor of Music (Voice) |
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Shirley Verrett |
1999 - 2004 | James Earl Jones Distinguished University Professor of Music |
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Randall Reid-Smith |
1999 - 2002 | Assistant Professor of Voice |
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Carmen Pelton |
2001 - 2020 | Professor of Music |
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Luretta V. Bybee |
2002 - 2004 | Assistant Professor of Voice |
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John C. Pierce |
2004 - 2008 | Assistant Professor of Voice |
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Rico F. Serbo |
2004 - 2015 | Associate Professor of Music (Voice) |
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Robert Swedberg |
2008 - 2018 |
Clinical Associate Professor of Music Clinical Associate Professor of Music Emeritus |
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Ruth Kay Walker Castaldo |
2012 - 2016 | Clinical Associate Professor of Music (Opera) |
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Kathleen Kelly |
2014 - 2018 | Associate Professor of Music (Voice) |