The Honors Program is governed by a Council of 12 Bemidji State University faculty members with specializations ranging from art and design, biology, computer science, criminal justice, library science, music, nursing, social work, theater and more. Each Council member is dedicated to fostering innovative cross-disciplinary thinking and guiding student research.
Our Mission
The Honors Program hosts an intellectually challenging, supportive environment featuring interdisciplinary active learning and a rigorous, dynamic curriculum. Faculty and students work together to gain new understandings and interests, engage in dialog, analyze ideas, practice creative and unconventional thinking and cultivate habits that lead to life-long learning.
Our Faculty & Staff
Dr. Miriam Webber
Director of the Honors Program
Professor
Bangsberg Hall 367, Memorial 312
Phone: (218) 755-3360
Email: miriam.webber@bemidjistate.edu
Miriam Brack Webber, PhD is Professor of Music and Director of the Honors Program at Bemidji State University. She holds a Bachelor’s of Music from Ball State University in Bassoon Performance, and Master’s of Music from McGill University and the University of Kansas in Bassoon Performance and Music Theory, respectively, and a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in Music Theory. Her dissertation research investigated narrative processes within Shostakovich’s works as these processes relate to Soviet literary theory. Other research interests include emotion, pedagogy and performance studies. She has presented papers at university events and international conferences, and her monograph Bakhtin and the Music of Dmitri Shostakovich: Analysis as Dialogue is was recently published in Routledge Press.
In 2019, Dr. Webber co-founded Silent Voices Project, a large-scale project formed to help create opportunities for women and non-binary composers engaging in compositional pursuits of writing, publishing, performing, and recording music for chamber woodwinds. Silent Voices Project has commissioned and premiered new works at a number of national and international conferences, including those hosted by the International Double Reed Society, International Clarinet Association, Music By Women, College Music Society and SHE: Festival of Women in Music.
Currently principal bassoonist of the Bemidji Symphony and Heartland Symphony Orchestras, Dr. Webber has performed with orchestras across the country, including the Duluth Superior Symphony, Fargo Moorhead Opera, Northern Lights Music Festival, Simphonietta Memphis, Symphony of Northwest Arkansas, Muncie Symphony, Kokomo Symphony, Southeast Kansas Symphony, Fort Hays Symphony, Springfield Symphony, St. Joseph Symphony, and Springfield-Drury Civic Orchestras. She was named Region 2 Arts Council Artist Fellow for 2022–2023.