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Donald A. Hodges served as Distinguished Professor of Music Education and Director of the Music Research Institute (MRi) (2003-2013) and is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 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. Hodges is author of Music in the Human Experience: An Introduction to Music Psychology (2020), co-editor of Routledge International Handbook of Music Psychology in Education and the Community (forthcoming 2021), co-editor of Oxford Handbook of Music and the Brain ( 2019), author of A Concise Survey of Music Philosophy (2017), co-author of Music in the Human Experience: An Introduction to Music Psychology (2011), contributing editor of the Handbook of Music Psychology and the accompanying Multimedia Companion (1996, 1980), and author of numerous papers in music psychology and music education. Recent research efforts have included 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 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://sites.google.com/site/donaldahodges/.

Email: dahodges@uncg.edu