The author's article, "Making Music, Making Selves," was written as "an effort to broaden the academic conversation about music educators and identity, to make room for a wider range of perspectives on identity, and to help everyone in the field to think deeply about what it means to be a music educator and what it means to become a music…

In the author's research, she studies the professional identities of music educators. Through her ethnographic studies of elementary school general music teachers, she has come to better understand the ways that elementary general music teachers express and enact their identities. It is often said that academics study themselves when they conduct…