Mark Rodgers (he/him)

I am an innovative, versatile, and award-winning teacher with special passions for experiential and place-based learning and cultivating inclusive classroom environments. I teach a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses in the School of Music, and I also teach regularly in the Interdisciplinary Honors and College Edge programs. 

In my teaching and research I focus on three distinct areas, which overlap with one another through my guiding interests in bioethics and cultural theory: labor studies, the "gig economy," and working musicians in the Pacific Northwest; animal musicality, posthumanism, and the environment; and the history of music before 1650.

I am also actively engaged in pedagogical research: I am currently (2024–26) an Evidence-Based Teaching Fellow at the UW Center for Teaching and Learning, and I am co-editor of The Jigsaw, the blog of the American Musicological Society's Pedagogy Study Group. 

I welcome inquiries from prospective students and members of the public. I enjoy baking, birding, musicking, volunteering in my communities, and making the most of the many opportunities for outdoor activities afforded by the Pacific Northwest.