Benjamin Graf is an active scholar in music theory, pedagogy and performance.

William McGinney received his bachelor of music degree from the University of Texas in 1990.  After working in manufacturing for the next eight years, he began graduate study in 1998, earning his master's degree from the University of North Texas in 2003 and his PhD in 2009.  To date, his principal areas of research have included the film music of Aaron Copland, music for science fiction films of the "New Hollywood Era," and British progressive rock of the early 1970s.

April L. Prince received her undergraduate degree from Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia and her Ph.D. in musicology from the University of Texas at Austin under the late K.M. Knittel.

Vivek Virani’s research explores connections between music and spirituality in diverse religious and cultural traditions, with a particular focus on religious music's role in the constructions of community, nation, and self. His current book project, Songs of the Unknowable Country, explores how songs of Kabir and other mystic poet-saints performed by folk musicians are used to negotiate issues of culture, religion, and nation in India and abroad.

Poovalur Sriji, a prolific composer, performer, educator, ‘A’ Top grade artist recognized by All India Radio (the Indian government through their radio network grades artists and “A” Top is the highest ranking), studied South Indian classical music from his father P. A. Venkataraman. For over four decades Poovalur has performed with leading artists from both South and North Indian classical traditions. Since his move to the United States he has performed and recorded with Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Béla Fleck, Mark O’Connor, John Bergamo, and Glen Velez to name a few.

Dawn Astrid De Rycke received a Diploma in guitar from Rijksmuziekeacademie in Antwerp, Belgium (1985), private study in guitar at Mexico City (1990-92), BM and MM in guitar from Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University (1994, 1997), MM in musicology from Peabody Institute (1997), and is ABD in musicology from University of Chicago.

Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy-Schwinden is a historian of musical labor during the eighteenth century and Age of Revolutions. She specializes in France, its diaspora, and the French colonial empire. Her research is archival in nature, and most broadly examines the implications of music’s property status under nascent capitalism and democracy.

Professor Stephen Slottow received a bachelor's degree from Cleveland State University, a master's from Queens College, and a Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he wrote a dissertation on pitch organization in the music of Carl Ruggles. He has taught at City College, Queens College, Temple University, and Hofstra University. A former professional fiddler and banjo player, his interests include American traditional music, the American ultramodernists, and Schenkerian analysis.

From 1970 to 1975, Schwarz attended the University of Virginia where he studied English and American literature, graduating in 1975 with a B.A. in English. While at Virginia he commuted home to Richmond on the weekends where he took private violin lessons from Frederick Neumann. From 1975 to 1977, he attended Indiana University where he studied Comparative Literature, graduating with an M. A. in 1980; he wrote his master's thesis on the relationship between René Char's poetry and the music of Pierre Boulez in Le Marteau sans maître.

Frank Heidlberger has been professor of music theory at the College of Music of the University of North Texas since fall 2001. In 2006 he was promoted to full professor. He served as Chair of the Division of Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology 2011 - 2018, and as Coordinator of the Music Theory area (2019-2021). After studies in clarinet and jazz saxophone in Frankfurt, Detmold and Stuttgart, he received M.A. (1988), and Ph.D. (1993) degrees in historical musicology, philosophy and German literature at Würzburg University.