Portrait of Dr. Amanda Christina Soto

Dr. Amanda Christina Soto

  • Associate Professor at School of Music, College of Fine Arts & Communication

Service Activities

2025

  • Member, Personnel Committee. January 2023 - December 2025.
  • Member, Smithsonian Folkways Recording Education Committee Member. January 2022 - December 2025.
  • Member, Inclusion in Underserved Populations. January 2022 - December 2025.
  • Member, Alumni. August 2024 - May 2025.
  • Member, Music Education Committee. January 2023 - May 2025.
  • Participant, Music Education Upper Level Review Committee. January 2023 - May 2025.

2024

  • Member, Music Education Student Teacher Coordinator. February 2024 - May 2024.
  • Member, Public Relations Committee. August 2023 - May 2024.

2022

  • Chair, Music Education (Undergraduate & Graduate), Latin Music Studies (Graduate), and Mariachi Minor (Undergraduate) Curriculum Revision & Submission. January 2020 - December 2022.
  • Member, College Music Society Community Engagement Committee. January 2020 - December 2022.
  • Chair, College Music Society Sub-Comittee on Scholarship, Research, and Pedagogy for the 2020 College Music Society National Conference. January 2021 - November 2022.
  • Member, College Music Society Program Committee Member for the 2022 College Music Society National Conference in Long Beach, CA. January 2021 - November 2022.
  • Chair, Social Justice Special Research Interest Groups (SRIGs), National Association for Music Education (NAfME). August 2020 - November 2022.
  • Chair, Latin Music Studies Area & Committee. August 2021 - August 2022.
  • Chair, Latin Music Studies Director Search. January 2022 - June 2022.
  • Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. January 2021 - June 2022.
  • Chair, Undergraduate Learning Outcomes. June 2021 - May 2022.
  • Chair, Music Education Committee. January 2021 - May 2022.
  • Member, Academic Freedom Committee. August 2018 - May 2022.
  • Member, Latin Studies Department Committee. January 2018 - May 2022.
  • Participant, Instrumental Upper Level Review Committee. January 2014 - May 2022.
  • Member, String Music Education Search. August 2021 - February 2022.

2021

  • Member, Music Education Student Teacher Coordinator. January 2016 - May 2021.
  • Undergraduate Advisor, Collegiate Texas Music Educators Organization. August 2014 - May 2021.

2020

  • Editorial Review Board Member, CMS-Routledge Pedagogies and Innovations in Music Series. September 2019 - December 2020.
  • Member, Music Education Committee. January 2018 - May 2020.
  • Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. January 2018 - May 2020.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Society for Muisc Teacher Education. February 2017 - May 2020.
  • Education Section Chair, Society for Ethnomusicology. August 2013 - May 2020.
  • Member, Music Education Search - Brass. October 2018 - April 2020.
  • Member, College Music Society Sub-Comittee on Scholarship, Research, and Pedagogy for the 2020 College Music Society National Conference. October 2019 - February 2020.

2019

  • Society for Music Teacher Education - College Music Society Music Education Liaison. January 2017 - 2019.
  • Reviewer / Referee, College Music Society. October 2019 - December 2019.
  • Co - Chair Cultural Diversity and Social Justice ASPA, Society for Music Teacher Education (SMTE). August 2014 - December 1, 2019.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Ethnomusicology. September 2017 - November 2019.
  • Tenure Review Letter, Assistant to Associate Music Education Professor - Kansas State University. August 2019 - October 2019.
  • Board Member, Society for Music Teacher Education (SMTE). August 2016 - June 2019.
  • Board Member - Music Education, College Music Society. January 2016 - January 2019.

2018

  • Attendee / Participant, College Music Society. 2016 - 2018.
  • College Music Society (CMS) Music Education Liaison. 2015 - 2018.
  • Co-Chair, Society for Ethnomusicology. August 2015 - 2018.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Oxford University Press. October 2018.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Ethnomusicology. April 2018.

2017

  • Member, Planning Group Committee. August 2016 - May 2017.
  • Chair, Texas Music Educators Conference. August 2014 - May 2017.
  • Member, Instrumental Music Education Search. August 2016 - February 2017.
  • Reviewer / Referee, SMTE Research Review Committee for 2018 NAfME Conference. January 2017.

2015

  • Music Education String Search. 2014 - 2015.
  • Member, Graduate Curriculum Committee. August 2015 - December 2015.
  • Member, College Music Society. August 2015 - December 2015.
  • Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. August 2014 - May 2015.
  • Panel of Music Education Advisors to Music Education Board Member, College Music Society. August 2013 - May 2015.
  • Organizer, CTME Chapter Fundraiser for SWAN 4 Kids. March 2015.
  • Member, String Music Education Search. August 2014 - February 2015.

2014

  • Treasurer, Pacific Northwest College Music Society. 2011 - 2014.
  • Chapter Advisor for the National Association for Music Education Collegiate Chapter. 2010 - 2014.
  • Chair, National Association for Music Education. August 2013 - May 2014.
  • Chair, Idaho Music Education Association. August 2013 - May 2014.
  • Summit Ad Hoc Committee Member, College Music Society. August 2013 - May 2014.
  • President, Moscow-Pullman Sigma Alpha Iota Alumnae Chapter. August 2012 - May 2014.
  • President, Sigma Alpha Iota Alumnae Chapter. August 2012 - April 2014.

2013

  • Tenure Committee, Barry Bilderback. 2013.
  • LHSOM Director Search Committee. 2013.
  • Board of the Latin American Studies Program. 2011 - 2013.
  • Music Education Committee. 2010 - 2013.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Pacific Northwest College Music Society. September 2013.
  • Treasurer, Pacific Northwest College Music Society. August 2011 - May 2013.
  • Chair, Society of Music Teacher Education. August 2011 - May 2013.

2012

  • Spanish Faculty Search Committee. 2012.
  • Tenure Committee, Lorie Enloe. 2012.
  • Vice President of Membership, Moscow-Pullman Sigma Alpha Iota Alumnae Chapter. 2011 - 2012.
  • Vice President of Membership, Moscow-Pullman Sigma Alpha Iota Alumnae Chapter. August 2011 - May 2012.
  • Northwestern Division Representative, Adult & Community Music Education SRIG-MENC. August 2010 - May 2012.

2011

  • Reviewer / Referee, Northwest MENC Conference Poster Session. November 2011.