Jenine Brown is Associate Professor of Music Theory at The Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University. She joined the music theory department in 2015 after earning a Ph.D. in music theory from the Eastman School of Music. She also holds degrees from the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor and is the recipient of numerous executive leadership training certificates from the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. Courses taught include the undergraduate ear training core curriculum and a graduate seminar that explores the intersection of music cognition and music analysis. These courses offer Brown the opportunity to guide students on their journey to hearing musical structure, a pursuit in which she is extremely passionate. Brown is a recipient of Johns Hopkins University’s Catalyst Award (2023) and a COVID-19 Research Accelerator Grant (2021). She is also the inaugural winner of the Peabody Conservatory’s CARES Award for a faculty member (2020).

Brown’s research can be found in Music Theory Spectrum, Music Perception (here and here), the Journal of New Music Research, Empirical Musicology Review, and SMT-Pod. Her research takes an empirical approach to studying listener expectation. She has presented at many conferences including meetings of the Society for Music Theory (2021, 2023, 2024), the Society for Music Perception and Cognition (2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2022), the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (2014, 2021, 2023), the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (2024), the Association for Psychological Science (2012, 2019), Music Theory Midwest (2014), APCAM (2017, 2020), the American Musicological Society (2024), and the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic (2020, 2021, 2022, 2024), among others. A previous line of research investigated hearing pre-compositional structure in post-tonal music. Along with Dr. Daphne Tan (University of Toronto) and others, her current project concerns the pre-dominant function and she has shared findings at invited talks at the Eastman School of Music and Florida State University. Additional collaborative projects with colleagues and advisees at her institution are published in Frontiers in Psychology, Research Studies in Music Education, and the Journal of Singing. 

Brown’s writings on aural skills pedagogy are published in the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, in Engaging Students: Essays in Music Pedagogy, and in a chapter in The Routledge Companion to Aural Training in Music Education. She has provided resources for teaching freshman aural skills in the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy and she has published two reviews of online ear-training tools. Scholarship on the Suzuki Violin School can be read in the American Suzuki Journal and in College Music Symposium. 

Brown has served the Society for Music Theory as Associate Editor of Music Theory Online, program committee member for the annual 2020 conference, Nominations Committee, and as Statistician. Regionally, she served the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic as President (2022–24), Secretary (2018–22), and Program Chair (2019); she also led efforts in hosting the 20^th anniversary MTSMA conference at Peabody in 2023. Brown has been involved with the College Board’s AP Music Theory exam annually since 2011; she is one of eight featured collegiate instructors on the College Board’s AP Daily, was the 2022–23 Visiting Fellow in Course and Exam Development for AP Music Theory, and currently sits on the AP Music Theory Test Development Committee.