Dr. Benjamin Dobbs (PhD, music theory, 2015) has been appointed Assistant Professor of Music at Furman University. His research interests center broadly on the development of musical style and musical thought during the Protestant Reformation in Middle and North Germany. He also studies the relationships among students’ beliefs about learning, learning behaviors, and learning outcomes in music theory classes, for which he collaborates with Shana Southard-Dobbs (PhD, experimental psychology, UNT, 2016), Associate Professor of Psychology at Lander University. Benjamin joined the faculty at Furman in 2017 as Lecturer in Music, and he has been Visiting Assistant Professor of Music since 2019. He is delighted to continue serving Furman’s students and the University community in this new role.