Cody A. Norling serves as Faculty Affairs Administrator in the Office of Academic Affairs. In this capacity, he has a broad range of responsibilities that impact the professional lives of Eastman’s collegiate faculty—managing faculty records (contracts, promotion/tenure reviews, academic leaves), preparing accreditation reviews for the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM), monitoring studio loads, and administering related financial accounts.

Cody is a musicologist and higher education professional with a history of progressively responsible experiences in collegiate administration, having previously served the faculty of SUNY Genesee Community College and the executive editorial staff of the Dance Research Journal. He holds a PhD in Musicology and a Graduate Certificate in Online Teaching from the University of Iowa, where he completed a dissertation exploring an ethos of progress and nation-building that characterized the civic density of operatic cultures in 1920s Chicago. Cody’s research can be found in American Music, The Opera Journal, a recent volume titled The Making of the Midwest (Hastings College Press, 2020), and two in-progress volumes in the fields of music and history. He has presented papers for the Society for American Music, American Musicological Society, Midwest History Association, and for specialized conferences related to his research areas. In 2016, he was awarded the National Opera Association’s Leland Fox Scholarly Paper Award, and in 2019, he was inducted into the Society of Pi Kappa Lambda. Cody currently serves as a member of the Society for American Music’s Education Committee and previously held service roles for the American Musicological Society’s Midwest Chapter and the Midwest Graduate Music Consortium. Prior to his administrative appointments, he taught general-education courses in music and rhetoric at Western Technical College and the University of Iowa.

Cody is now happy to reside in Western New York, where he enjoys time with his dogs and collecting new regional experiences. In addition to maintaining in-progress research projects, he is currently pursuing professional certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI).