Julia J. Chybowski earned a Ph.D. in music history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is currently Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh where she teaches a wide variety of courses about music history and cultures.  Her research interests include nineteenth-century American music and the history of music education.  She engages in both archival work as well as critical race, gender, and class theory. She is a leading authority on Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, the 19th-century African American singer who toured as the “Black Swan.”  Her published works can be found in Oxford Music Online, Encyclopedia of American Musical Culture, The American Music Research Journal, The Journal of Ethnic History, Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, The Journal of the Society for American Music, American Music and The Journal of the American Musicological Society.  Besides teaching and research, Professor Chybowski’s service to the UWO campus and to the academic field of musicology shows her interest in pedagogy, curricular reform, university shared governance, and strengthening the Humanities and Liberal Arts in Higher Education.