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Royal Hartigan, M.A. ’83, Ph.D. ’86

Royal Hartigan, M.A. ’83, Ph.D. ’86, received a Fulbright-Hays research and teaching award from the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars and the U.S. State Department. Hartigan, an associate professor of music at UMass-Dartmouth, will research the indigenous kulintang gong and drum ensembles of southern Mindanao and the gangsa gong ensembles of the northern Luzon mountains while he is in residence at the University of the Philippines this fall. His interest in world music developed while at Wesleyan from 1981-1986 and he writes that “Wesleyan is a psychic, physical, aesthetic space where the life of the mind and heart is celebrated.”
Royal Hartigan, M.A. ’83, Ph.D. ’86, received a Fulbright-Hays research and teaching award from the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars and the U.S. State Department. Hartigan, an associate professor of music at UMass-Dartmouth, will research the indigenous kulintang gong and drum ensembles of southern Mindanao and the gangsa gong ensembles of the northern Luzon mountains while he is in residence at the University of the Philippines this fall. His interest in world music developed while at Wesleyan from 1981-1986 and he writes that “Wesleyan is a psychic, physical, aesthetic space where the life of the mind and heart is celebrated.”