Joyce McCall

Joyce McCall was appointed to the faculty at Arizona State University in 2021 where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre. Previous appointments include the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she served as an assistant professor of music education, and the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where she served as a postdoctoral resident scholar and visiting assistant professor in music education. McCall also served as an assistant band director at MacArthur High School in Houston, Texas, and a woodwind and marching band specialist in Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, and Arizona. 

McCall's research—positioned within the context of frameworks like critical race theory, Black feminist thought, and double consciousness theory—centers on how race, gender, and culture are used to preserve power and dominance, and impact educational equity in music learning and teaching. Additionally, she examines how culturally relevant pedagogy influences learning outcomes among racialized populations in the music classroom. She has presented sessions and research at the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, the College Music Society National and International Conferences, the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, the National Association for Music Education National Conference, the Desert Skies Symposium for Research in Music Education, and the Society for Music Teacher Education Symposium, and published in Teachers College Record, the Handbook of Critical Race Theory in Education (2nd. ed.), Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, Journal of Music Teacher Education, the Biennial Desert Skies Symposium on Research in Music Education. 

McCall has proudly served as a clarinetist and saxophonist in the United States Army Bands from 1999 to 2013. During her service, she was awarded the National Defense Service Medal, the Armed Forces Reserve Medal, the Adjutant General Individual Award, and the Army Achievement Medal. Previous assignments include the 151st Army Band in Montgomery, Alabama; the 41st Army Band in Jackson, Mississippi; the 36th Infantry Division Band in Austin, Texas; and the 108th Army Band in Phoenix, Arizona. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated and Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity for Women.