Ph.D. in music theory from the University at Buffalo (SUNY); research interests include chromatic harmony, transformational theory and the history of theory; articles have appeared in Music Theory Spectrum, Theoria and the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy and in collections published by University of Rochester Press and Stockholm University Press; has presented papers at meetings of the Society for Music Theory, the College Music Society, the American Mathematical Society, Music Theory Midwest, the Music Theory Society of New York, the International Musicological Society and the European Society for the Cognition of Music and at colloquia at Indiana University and the University of Iowa; 2003 fellow at The Mannes Institute on Transformational Theory; has served as a member of the Society for Music Theory’s Networking and Publications Committees as a member of the program committees for the 2006 meeting of the Society of Music Theory and the 2007 meeting of Music Theory Midwest and as chair of the MTMW nominating committee; and has served as a member of the editorial board for Music Theory Online and the treasurer of Music Theory Midwest.