Interim Co-Director of the School of Music
Associate Dean CMDA
Music Education
School of Music
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-2504
P: 225.578.3258
F: 225.578.2562
E: jcassid@lsu.edu

Jane Cassidy (Professor and Chair of Music Education). Cassidy is Professor and Chair of Music Education at Louisiana State University where her responsibilities include teaching courses in elementary music education, music in special education, psychology of music, and measurement and evaluation and supervising student teachers. Dr. Cassidy is an active clinician invited to present workshops on current issues in elementary music education including the inclusive music classroom, curriculum development, classroom management strategies, and teacher effectiveness. She is the coordinator of Musical Mondays, a partnership with the public schools which provides musical experiences in an extended day program for elementary children through field experiences for undergraduate music education students. Her research interests center around musical development of infants and children, music education for children with special needs, and teacher effectiveness. Most notably, her research with critically premature infants is eliciting cross discipline interest from the music therapy and medical communities for its impact on establishing protocol for presentation of music in the NICU. She regularly presents research papers at national conventions of Music Educators National Conference (MENC) and the American Music Therapy Association. She has published extensively in music education and music therapy journals, has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Research in Music Education, currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Music Therapy, and is Chair-elect of the Music Education Research Council of MENC. In 1999 she was awarded a prestigious Distinguished Professor Award for excellence in teaching, research, and service at LSU.