NANCY ROGERS, Assistant Professor of Music Theory, received a Ph.D. from the Eastman School of Music, where she won both school-wide and university-wide teaching awards. She also holds a M.M. from the University of Michigan, a B.M. in music theory and composition from Northwestern University, and a B.A. in linguistics from Northwestern University. She is a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities. Her primary research interest is music cognition and its pedagogical implications, and she has presented papers at national, international, and regional conferences.

Before coming to Florida State University, Dr. Rogers served on the faculties of Northwestern University, the University of Iowa, and Lawrence University. She has taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses, including both common-practice and post-tonal theory and analysis, aural skills, practical keyboard harmony, music cognition, and music theory pedagogy. Dr. Rogers is currently treasurer of Music Theory Midwest and also serves on the Society for Music Theory's Committee for the Status of Women.