Nancy F. Vogan

Nancy F. Vogan has been a faculty member of Mount Allison University for over thirty-five years where she has taught courses in music education, music history, music in Canada and introduction to music for non-majors A native of Moncton NB she received her BA(music) at Mount Allison prior to attending the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, for her Master of Music and PhD degrees in music education. She taught music at Keuka College and in the public schools of Ontario and New Brunswick prior to joining Mount Allison.

Her major fields of research have been the history of music instruction and the history of music in Canada. She is coauthor (with J. Paul Green) of Music Education in Canada: A Historical Account (University of Toronto Press, 1991). Other publications include articles in the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The Dictionary of Canadian Biography, the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music and the History of the Book in Canada as well as numerous articles in journals and proceedings. One of her current interests is singing schools and music publications during the 18th and 19th centuries; she is preparing a book on the history of singing schools and tunebooks in the Maritimes.

Nancy Vogan currently serves on the editorial committee of the Journal of Historical Research in Music Education and is a contributing editor for the Canadian Music Educator. She is a research associate of the University of Toronto's Canadian Music Education Research Centre and has been a council member of the Bibliographical Society of Canada. She has spoken at numerous conferences and delivered guest lectures at the American Antiquarian Society, the MENC Keokuk II Symposium, and the Toronto Centre for the Book. Dr. Vogan is the recipient of several honours and awards including the Jubilate Award of Merit from the Canadian Music Educators' Association, three SSHRC grants, a British Council Travel Grant, and a Canada-US Fulbright Fellowship, as well as a Paul Paré Award and the Tucker Teaching Award from Mount Allison. In 2003 she was appointed the Pickard-Bell Professor of Music which she still holds.

International music education is one of her many interests. She has participated in workshops of the World Music Drumming Program, attended MENC workshops on world music and also visited schools and music institutions in the United States and Britain. In 2003 she visited South Africa as part of a fifteen-member music education delegation; in the spring of 2004 she visited Russia as a member of a similar delegation. She is a member the International Society for Music Education; she spoke at the 2008 ISME Congress in Bologna, Italy, and last summer she participated in the 2010 ISME Congress in Beijing, China. 

See "Vogan, Nancy". Encyclopedia of Music in Canada. 2nd. ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (1992) 1377.

Nancy F. Vogan
Pickard-Bell Professor
Department of Music 134 Main St.
Mount Allison University
Sackville New Brunswick E4L 1A6 Canada