Dr. Crystal Peebles joined the Music Theory faculty at Ithaca College in Fall 2014 following a visiting position at Northern Arizona University. She completed her undergraduate studies in Music Education and Suzuki Pedagogy from East Carolina University and her graduate studies in Music Theory from Florida State University. Her dissertation explores the connection between musical expectation and the perception of musical closure.
She has presented her research in music cognition both regionally and internationally. Current projects involve the study of music theory pedagogy, public musicology, and the analysis of recent music.
Dr. Peebles is active in the traditional dance community as a dancer and musician. She has published on this dance tradition in The Journal of Mathematics and the Arts.