Donald A. Hodges served as Covington Distinguished Professor of Music Education and Director of the Music Research Institute (2003-2013) and is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author of Music in the Human Experience: An Introduction to Music Psychology (2011, 2020), A Concise Survey of Music Philosophy (2017), Introduction to Music Education Research (2023), co-author with P. Miksza, J. Shaw, L. Richerme, and P. Hash of Music Education Research: An Introduction, editor of the Handbook of Music Psychology (1980, 1996), co-editor with M. Thaut of The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain (2019), co-editor with A. Creech and S. Hallam of Routledge Handbook of Music Psychology in Education and the Community (2021), and author more than 45 book chapters and 90 articles in music psychology and music education. Research efforts include a series of brain imaging studies of pianists, conductors, and singers using PET and fMRI. Hodges has served on the editorial committees of the Journal of Research in Music Education, Music Educators Journal, Reviews of Research in Human Learning and Music, and Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, and has presented widely across the US and internationally. His degrees are from the University of Kansas (BME) and the University of Texas (MM and PhD). Previous appointments include the Philadelphia public schools, the University of South Carolina, Southern Methodist University, and the University of Texas at San Antonio. His biographical sketch is in the New Grove Dictionary of American Music. A current vita and copies of many of his papers can be accessed at http:// http://sites.google.com/site/donaldahodges/.

A current vita and copies of many of his papers can be accessed at: http://sites.google.com/site/donaldahodges/.