Amy Graziano, Ph.D.

Amy Graziano, Assistant Professor and Director of Historical Studies, is a musicologist specializing in the psychology of music. She received her Ph.D. (1996) and M.M. (1990) from the University of Texas at Austin and her B.A. (music and psychology, 1985) from Vassar College. Dr. Graziano also completed a two-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Music Cognition at the University of California, Irvine. At Chapman, Dr. Graziano teaches introductory and advanced music history courses, The Psychology of Music and Film Music. She also directs the Early Music Concert each fall semester. Dr. Graziano taught previously at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of California at Irvine, Extension, Santa Ana College, and Golden West College. 

Dr. Graziano's current research focuses on the history of music psychology; she has published articles in interdisciplinary journals such as Music Perception and Brain and Cognition.  She has presented her work at conferences of the Society for Music Perception and Cognitio and was the keynote speaker for a conference on Early Childhood Music Education at Pasadena City College.   Dr. Graziano was a 2002 recipient of an Arnold L. and Lois S. Graves award for research in the humanities and is also the recipient of a Chapman University award for excellence in teaching and scholarship.