Dallas International University and the Center for Excellence in World Arts are excited to announce a new publication of work by Dr. Brian Schrag, CEWA Founder, DIU Adjunct Faculty, International Arts Consultant, and SIL Ethnomusicology & Arts. Artistic Dynamos: An Ethnography on Music in Central African Kingdoms Brian Schrag, PhD Artistic Dynamos explains how all…
On March 10, 2021, Dallas International University lost a beloved mentor when ethnomusicologist and folklorist Dr. Eduard Alekseyev (b. December 4, 1937) suffered a stroke and passed away. Born into a family of “Honored Teachers of the USSR” in Yakutia (now the Republic of Sakha in the Russian Federation), he graduated with honors from the…
On December 1, 2020, the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship (CICW) announced that it will fund 17 grants to Teacher-Scholars for 2021-2022 as part of its Vital Worship Grants Program. We are delighted to announce that DIU faculty member Beth Argot, Ph.D., was among those selected to receive a Teacher-Scholar Vital Worship Grant…
Dallas International University is excited to announce full funding of the Eduard Alekseyev Endowed Scholarship for World Arts! Thanks to the generosity of people like you $30,000 has been raised. This $30,000 will be doubled by the donors who issued the matching challenge, giving a total of $60,000 in the endowment. The Alekseyev Scholarship provides…
Brian Schrag and his ethnomusicologist colleague, Kathleen Van Buren, published a new book through Oxford University Press, Make Arts for a Better Life. This volume uses an interdisciplinary foundation involving ethnomusicology, anthropology, community development, folklore, and communication studies to present the process of arts advocacy in any community with any art form. It fleshes out the methodologies…
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges has approved Dallas International University’s proposal to launch a PhD in World Arts. This is the first PhD program to be offered by Dallas International and meets a global need for the highest level of training for teachers, researchers, and consultants in the field of…
Worship Leader Magazine, with a readership of over 80,000, has announced the newly designed International Council of Ethnodoxologists (ICE) website as one of the Best of 2016 Editor’s Picks! We congratulate our CEWA partner on this award. Explore the website (or view this detailed overview): Click a region of the map on the home page…
The International Council of Ethnodoxologists (ICE), one of the partners of the Center for Excellence in World Arts, has collaborated a second time with the International Orality Network to produce a volume of the Orality Journal dedicated to equipping people to engage local arts in oral contexts. Journal contributors hail from five continents. Representation from…