David Ake - University of Nevada at Reno, USA
Graeme Boone - Ohio State University, USA
Eric Charry - Wesleyan University, USA
Scott DeVeaux - University of Virginia, USA
Krin Gabbard - State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
Benjamin Givan - Skidmore College, USA
Lawrence Gushee - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Travis A. Jackson - University of Chicago, USA
Robin Kelley - University of Southern California, USA
Wolfram Knauer - Director of the Jazz-Institut, Darmstadt, Germany
George Lewis - Columbia University, USA
Jeffrey Magee - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (as of Sept. 2006)
Ingrid Monson - Harvard University, USA
Marcello Piras - Alfredo Casella Conservatory, L'Aquila, Italy / Puebla, Mexico
Steven F. Pond - Cornell University, USA
Eric Porter - University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
Lewis Porter - Rutgers University - Newark, USA
Brian Priestley - noted jazz scholar, author, pianist, UK
Ronald Radano - University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA
Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. - University of Pennsylvania, USA
Gabriel Solis - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
John Szwed - Columbia University and Yale University, USA
Sherrie Tucker - University of Kansas, USA
Walter van de Leur - University of Amsterdam and the Conservatory of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

John Howland is an Assistant Professor of Music History at Rutgers University-Newark and the author of Ellington Uptown: Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and the Birth of Concert Jazz (University of Michigan Press, 2009). He co-founded Jazz Perspectives with Lewis Porter in 2005. He specializes in the study of arranging traditions across popular music, big band jazz, and jazz-related orchestral idioms in dance bands, musical theater, and the media of film and radio, and his research concerns the connections among popular culture, jazz, race, and cultural hierarchies. He is also a co-editor for a forthcoming Ellington Studies anthology (Cambridge University Press), and his articles and reviews have appeared, or are forthcoming, in American Music, The Musical Quarterly, Annual Review of Jazz Studies, and The Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, as well as several essay collections.

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