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Biographical notes
Robin Attas (she/her/hers) is a white settler music theorist living and working in Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe territory as an educational developer at the Centre for Teaching and Learning at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She is also cross-appointed in Queen’s University’s Dan School of Drama and Music. Robin supports teaching and learning development among faculty, staff, and students and remains active as a music theory researcher, presenting and publishing on topics centred upon music theory pedagogy. Her publications are available in journals including Music Theory Online, Music Theory Spectrum, the Canadian Journal of Higher Education, Music Theory Pedagogy, College Music Symposium, and MUSICultures.
Margaret E. Walker is professor of ethno/musicology at Queen’s University in Kingston, which sits on Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee Territory. Her monograph India’s Kathak Dance in Historical Perspective (2014) focuses on the historiography of North Indian classical dance, and her research also explores gender, caste, diaspora, and colonialism. She has participated on two research teams exploring transnational music histories: the ERC-funded “Musical Transitions to European Colonialism” project at King’s College London, and the Balzan “Towards a Global History of Music” project based at Oxford University. Her current work takes questions of global and decolonized music history into the classroom in a cluster of interrelated projects on curriculum.
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