Mary Cohen
Assistant Professor
Music Education
Phone: (319) 335-
Office: VMB
mary-cohen@uiowa.edu
Music Education Web Site

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Mary Cohen

Mary L. Cohen is Assistant Professor of Music Education at the University of Iowa, where she teaches general music and choral methods courses. She holds B.M.E., M.M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Kansas, and has ten years experience teaching general music in the schools of that state.

Dr. Cohen has completed Level I and II Orff-Schulwerk Training, participated in Dalcroze training, Laban Movement Analysis training, Creative Motion workshops, and Alexander Technique study.  She has directed choirs of all ages, children through senior citizens. In her work with Arts in Prison, Inc., where she served as Special Projects Coordinator, she taught an integrated art and music class at a maximum security prison, directed choirs comprised of prison inmates and community volunteers, recruited arts instructors, and helped new arts in corrections instructors begin teaching arts classes to inmates.

Her research interests include history and philosophy of music education, music and other arts disciplines in corrections education, and the application of movement theories in music teaching.  Dr. Cohen has presented her research at international and national conferences, including the International Phenomenon of Singing Symposium, the International Correctional Education Association Conference, the National Association for Music Education (MENC), the Desert Skies Symposium on Research in Music Education, the American Dance Therapy Association Conference, and the American Orff-Schulwerk Association Conference.

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Last updated 15-aug-07