Christopher Jenkins is the Associate Dean for Academic Support, the Conservatory Liaison to the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology at Oberlin Conservatory. In 2023 his first book, Assimilation v. Integration in Music Education, was published by Routledge Press and the College Music Society. Chris is currently earning a DMA in viola performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music, and a PhD in musicology from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), where his work focuses on African-American musical aesthetics. In 2022, alongside music theorist Philip Ewell, Chris was a co-founder and co-organizer of the Theorizing African American Music conference held at CWRU.

Philip Ewell is a professor of music theory at Hunter College of the City University of New York, where he served as Director of Graduate Studies from 2016 to 2022. Ewell's research specialties include race studies in music theory, Russian music theory, Russian opera, modal theory and history, twentieth-century music theory, and hip hop and popular music. As a public music theorist, his scholarship has appeared in Adam Neely’s YouTube channel, the  BBC, the CBC,  Die Zeit, The Economist, The New York Times, The  New Yorker, Our Body Politic, and  WQXR’s Aria Code, among other outlets. Ewell is the series editor for the Oxford University Press book series, Theorizing African American Music, which launched in Fall 2022.