Ron Levy
Humanities
Ron Levy has been a Peabody faculty member since 1993. Prior to Peabody, Ron taught in the history department of Colorado College. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, pursuing research interests in European intellectual history and the history of science. His professional life began with musical endeavors as a violinist with the Colorado Springs Symphony (1976 - 1982), pursuing interests in historical performance practice as a Thomas J. Watson Fellow (1984 - 85) and as a member of Chicago's period instrument ensemble,The City Musick (1986 - 90).
Since 1994 Ron has worked with colleagues at other conservatories and arts schools nationally through the Consortium for the Liberal Education of Artists (CLEA), co-chairing the organization since 2000. He is currently organizing "Liberation & Deliberation: Conversations on the Liberal Education of Arts Students," a CLEA conference to be hosted by Berklee College of Music in October 2011.
Ron served as Humanities Department Chair from 1997 - 2011.
Ron is married with three children. (For the record, Sharon Levy, of the Music Theory faculty, is no relation—noted here since so many assume otherwise!)
