Dr. Maxine Fawcett-Yeske is an educator, academic advisor, historian, musicologist, and ethnomusicologist. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Music from the University of Colorado at Denver, a Master’s Degree in Music Education from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Colorado at Boulder where she received the Outstanding Dissertation in the Humanities Award for her thesis, “The American Fuging Tune, 1770-1820: An Analytical Study.” A lifelong learner, she is currently pursuing a Master of Arts Degree in History from the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Her research interests include: William Billings and American psalmody of the colonial and federal eras, Hildegard of Bingen, traditional music of Greece, the music of Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, and ethnomusicological study in Alaska and Ireland.

Dr. Fawcett-Yeske taught at Truman State University in Missouri, and then moved to Nebraska Wesleyan in Lincoln, where for eleven years she taught the entire music history sequence, world music, capstone seminar, and general music classes. A passionate teacher, Fawcett-Yeske received the campus Award for Teaching Excellence at Nebraska Wesleyan in 2003. In 2006 she was named Professor of the Year for the State of Nebraska by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation. While Associate Professor at NWU, Fawcett-Yeske also served as Fine Arts Division Chair and Director of Global Studies.

In July of 2010, intent on living in the same city and state as her husband Bob (after 22 years of “long-distance marriage”), Fawcett-Yeske accepted a position at the U.S. Air Force Academy, where she trains advisors, designs curriculum for first-year programs, advises undeclared cadets, and has taught music classes in the Department of English and Fine Arts and world history for the Department of History. In addition, she has been the Officer-in-Charge of the cadet Native American Heritage Club for several years. Her most recent publication, From the Black Mountain to the Shining Brow: The Life of Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, in collaboration and eminent Wright scholar Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, was published in June of 2017 by ORO Editions.

Master of Arts, History (In Progress)

Ph.D., Music (History)

New York University, Faculty Resource Network Summer Seminar

Master of Music (Music Education)

Bachelor of Science, Music (Vocal Performance/Sound Engineering)

U.S. Air Force Academy

Associate Professor, Chair of the Fine Arts Division, Director of the Global Studies Program, Nebraska Wesleyan University

Assistant Professor, Truman State University

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National Academic Advising Program of the Year Award (U.S. Air Force Academy)

Society of American Indian Government Employees Meritorious Service Award, U.S. Air Force Academy

Student-Faculty Collaborative Research Grant, Limerick Ireland, Nebraska Wesleyan University

Inducted into Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society

Case Carnegie U.S. Professor of the Year Award, State of Nebraska

Prouty Award for Teaching Excellence, Nebraska Wesleyan University

Inducted into Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society

Outstanding Dissertation in the Humanities, University of Colorado Boulder

academic advising, American sacred music, ethnomusicology, Hildegard of Bingen, liberal arts education, Native American history, Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, organic architecture, World War I history