Stanley C. Pelkey, Ph.D.
I am a seasoned scholar, musician, educator, and academic leader with over twenty-seven years of experience in the college classroom, successful appointments as a chair, associate dean, and dean, and many hours spent making music in the community as a soloist, chamber musician, and conductor.
Please visit my blog, where I curate essays on leadership, arts entrepreneurship, and higher education, samples of my original music, and all of my podcasts. I welcome your thoughts and responses: join the conversation!
My Media
I have significant knowledge and experience in the following areas:
- Strategic Planning, Academic Budgeting, Program Marketing, and Financial Aid Policies and Practices
- Student-Centered Pedagogy and both Undergraduate and Graduate Education
- STEAM, Arts Entrepreneurship, and Creative Community Engagement
- Teaching Areas: Music History, Film Music, World Music, Music Theory, and Music Entrepreneurship
- Research Areas: American Culture in the 20th Century; American and British Film and Television; the poetry of Charles Wesley; the writings of Lewis Mumford, David Riesman, and Bertrand Russell.
Academic Appointments
- Professor of Musicology, School of Music, University of Kentucky (July 2024 – ).
- Director of the School of Music, University of Kentucky (July 2018 – June 2024).
- Associate Dean of Community Engagement and Entrepreneurship, College of Music at Florida State University (July 2015 to June 2018).
- Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Roberts Wesleyan College (Rochester, New York) (July 2012 to June 2015).
- Associate Professor of Music, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan) (Fall 2005 to Summer 2012; tenured in 2011).
- Music Director for churches in the northeast, midwest, and southeast (1992 – ).