Faculty Profiles

Dr. Jason Dean Mellard

Editor, Texas A & M University Press. 2018 - Present.
Editor, Journal of Texas Music History. January 1, 2012 - Present.
Member, Working Group, Kenny Dorham Cultural Center. June 2025 - Present.
Board Member, Society for the Preservation of Texas Music. September 2023 - Present.
Member, Public History Committee. November 2022 - Present.
Participant, First Tuesday Documentary Screenings. January 2022 - Present.
Member, Speakers Committee. August 2021 - Present.
Director, Center for Texas Music History. August 2018 - Present.
Officer, Texas Music Museum. February 2016 - Present.

Officer, Texas Dance Hall Preservation. January 1, 2019 - 2025.
Member, Search Committee for TT Documentary Film Position. August 2025 - November 2025.
Organizer, Texas Country Music with Bill and Bobbie Malone. November 16, 2025.
Organizer, Poets and Dreamers: My Life in Americana Music. November 2, 2025.
Organizer, Sounds in Motion: Black and Brown Musical Collaborations in Texas. October 16, 2025.
Member, Alliance for Texas History. August 2024 - May 2025.
Member, Program Committee and Local Arrangements Committee, Alliance for Texas History Conference. May 17, 2025.
Organizer, Freddie Kibble: Master of Soul. April 17, 2025.
Speaker, Rotary Club. April 16, 2025.
Speaker, Metropolitan Breakfast Club. February 19, 2025.

Advisory Committee, Americana Music Foundation. February 2023 - 2024.
Fundraiser, Tommy Foote Memorial Endowed Scholarship. May 2024 - December 2024.
Member, Outreach and Publicity Committee. August 2023 - December 2024.
Speaker, Armadillo World. December 10, 2024.
Organizer, May Your Song Always Be Sung: The Music of Bob Dylan. December 6, 2024.
Organizer, Bill Malone: Country Music USA. November 20, 2024.
Organizer, And the Roots of Rhythm Remain: Joe Boyd in Conversation with Joe Nick Patoski. October 8, 2024.
Organizer, From Connecticut to Cash: Why I Wrote about the Man in Black. October 2, 2024.
Organizer, Welcome 2 Houston: A Book Talk with Langston Collin Wilkins. March 25, 2024.
Organizer, Texas Music Museum. February 24, 2024.
Organizer, The West Side Sound Oral History Project: Documenting the Music, Memories, and Local Histories of San Antonio's West Side. February 19, 2024.

Organizer, Pursuing a Public History of Entertainment at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. November 9, 2023.
Organizer, Louise Tobin: Texas Jazz Singer, a Book Talk with Kevin Mooney. October 18, 2023.
Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Southern History. July 2023.
Organizer, Architects of Sound: Women of El Paso Punk. March 7, 2023.

Organizer, Bevis M. Griffin: Texas Black Rock Maverick in Conversation with Kahron Spearman. November 29, 2022.
Reviewer / Referee, Texas A & M University Press. 2022.
Reviewer / Referee, Texas A & M University Press. 2022.
Organizer, Harold McMillan on Preserving East Austin's Blues and Jazz History. November 15, 2022.
Organizer, Putting Freddy Fender in the Country Music Hall of Fame with Veronique Medrano. November 3, 2022.
Organizer, Oral History, Community Storytelling, and the Legacy of DJ Screw with Lance Scott Walker and DaLyah Jones. October 6, 2022.
Organizer, Voice Lessons: Alice Embree. March 28, 2022.

Organizer, Why Bushwick Bill Matters: Charles Hughes in Conversation with Raphael Travis. November 4, 2021.
Organizer, All I Ever Wanted: Kathy Valentine in Conversation with Sarah Bird. October 14, 2021.
Participant, ALL ATX Leadership. October 5, 2018 - March 2021.

Organizer, Chulita Vinyl Club Performance for Hostile Terrain 94 Exhibition. November 5, 2020.
Organizer, Nina Diaz Performance for Hostile Terrain 94 Exhibition. October 15, 2020.
Organizer, A Conversation on Austin Jazz History with Pamela Hart and Dr. James Polk. September 26, 2020.
Organizer, Lesly Reynaga Performance for Hostile Terrain 94 Exhibition. September 17, 2020.
Reviewer / Referee, California History. May 2020 - July 2020.
Participant, Seeing Stevie Ray: Book Talk with Tracy Anne Hart and Eric Tessmer. April 23, 2020.
Organizer, Three Chords and the Truth: An Evening with Bill Malone. February 26, 2020.

Organizer, The Broken Spoke: Austin's Legendary Honky-Tonk. November 20, 2019.
Organizer, Houston Rap Tapes: A Book Talk on Hip-Hop in the Bayou City. October 10, 2019.
Organizer, Texas Country: The 1990s Scene in Historical Perspective. April 3, 2019.

Assistant Director, Center for Texas Music History. 2012 - 2018.
Reviewer / Referee, University of Oklahoma Press. December 2018.
Organizer, El Disco es Cultura: Preserving and Performing Cultural Identity. October 18, 2018.

Reviewer / Referee, Ohio University Press. August 15, 2016 - October 17, 2016.
Reviewer / Referee, Texas A & M University Press. August 19, 2016 - September 19, 2016.