Dr. Alicia Canterbury
Dr. Alicia Canterbury serves as Assistant Professor in Music Education in the Department of Music in the College of Arts and Sciences at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville where she teaches undergraduate and graduate music education majors. A Georgia native, she earned the Bachelor in Music Education at Mercer University, the MM degree in Music Education from Texas Tech University, and the PhD from the University of Mississippi.
Dr. Canterbury is an experienced public school educator focusing primarily in elementary general music and children’s choirs teaching grades K-8 in the state of Georgia as well as higher education at the University of Mississippi and Northwest Community College. In the past, she has presented at state-level music educator conferences throughout the South and at the American Choral Directors Association Conference on numerous topics related to general music instruction and elementary choral methods. She is Orff Level 1 and 2 certified. Her research interests include assessment, teacher effectiveness, acquisition of teaching skills, and turn of the 20th-century singing schools.
