The Hugh A. Glauser School of Music

Dr. Carruthers is Assistant Professor of Music and teaches Music as a World Phenomenon for non-music majors. She received a Master of Music degree in organ performance from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois, and a Ph.D. in music theory from Kent State University. She has previously served on the faculties of both the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and Hiram College.  In 1996, Dr. Carruthers received the first Term Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching. This Award is sponsored by the Kent Alumni Association and University Teaching Council to recognize excellence in teaching at Kent State University.
Dr. Carruthers' doctoral dissertation on the music of the late 16th-century woman composer, Vittoria/Raffaella Aleotti, led to the publication of two critical editions of Aleotti's complete works and practical edition octavos of individual madrigals and motets as titles in the series, Nine Centuries of Music by Women.  Dr. Carruthers prepared the Study Guide to accompany a new music appreciation text, Understanding Music by Jeremy Yudkin (Prentice Hall, 1996), and later revised the Study Guide for both the 2d and 3d editions of the text.
In addition to her academic responsibilities, Dr. Carruthers has maintained a lifelong involvement with church music which began when she became a church organist at the age of 14 in her hometown of Murphysboro, Illinois. For the past 25 years, she has participated in the music program of Community Christian Church in North Canton, Ohio, currently serving as organist.