Hamza Yusuf Hanson currently serves as president of Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California, the first accredited Muslim liberal arts college in the United States. A proponent of the traditional liberal arts and great books education in both the Western and Muslim traditions, he has translated, authored, and co-authored numerous publications, including scholarly books and articles…
Diana Deutsch is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego. Diana Deutsch is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego, She is internationally known for the musical illusions and paradoxes that she discovered; these include the octave illusion, the scale illusion, the glissando illusion, the tritone paradox, the cambiata…
Mark Tramo is Director of The Institute for Music & Brain Science and Co-Director of the University of California Multi-Campus Music Research Initiative. He is also Associate Clinical Professor of Neurology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Adjunct Professor in Ethnomusicology at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. A 2015…
Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis is a professor at Princeton University, where she directs the Music Cognition Lab. Her research approaches music from the combined perspectives of music theory/musicology and cognitive science. Her book On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind received the 2014 Wallace Berry Award from the Society for Music Theory, and the 2015 ASCAP…
Suzanne B Hanser, EdD, MT-BC is Professor and Chair Emerita of the Music Therapy Department at Berklee College of Music. Hanser is Past President of both the World Federation of Music Therapy and the National Association for Music Therapy. She established the music therapy program at the Leonard P. Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies at…
Leon Glass is Professor and the Isadore Rosenfeld Chair in Cardiology at McGill University. Leon Glass is an American scientist who has studied various aspects of the application of mathematical and physical methods to biology, with special interest in vision, cardiac arrhythmia, and genetic networks. He was born in Brooklyn, NY where he attended Erasmus Hall…
Alfonse Borysewicz is a Brooklyn-based painter. He received his B.A. from Sacred Heart Seminary and M.A. from St. John’s Provincial Seminary. He later attended the Studio School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He is the recipient of two fellowships from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Gregory Wolfe, an editor at…
Carl Plantinga is a professor of film and media at Calvin College, where he has taught since 2000. Plantinga’s authored books include Screen Stories: Emotion and the Ethics of Engagement; Moving Viewers: American Film and the Spectator’s Experience; and Rhetoric and Representation in Nonfiction Film. He also co-edited The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film…
Antonius Roberts is a Bahamian artist. Roberts received his BFA in painting, in 1981, from the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of The Arts). He has participated in exhibitions worldwide. As the former coordinator of FINCO Summer Art Workshops, and as a teacher and lecturer at Government High School and The College of…
Murray Watts is best known as a playwright and screenwriter. His work as a writer in TV, radio, film, and theatre has won awards and received critical acclaim. He is the writer of many screenplays, including The Dream, starring Jeremy Irons, and the feature film The Miracle Maker, which was released to international acclaim in…
John Witvliet is the director of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and a professor of worship, theology, and congregational and ministry studies at Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary. His teaches courses at both the college and seminary and oversees CICW’s practical and scholarly programs, including the Calvin Symposium on Worship and the Vital…
Aaron Rosen is Director of the Henry Luce III Center for the Arts & Religion and Professor of Religion & Visual Culture at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. He was previously Senior Lecturer in Sacred Traditions & the Arts and Deputy Director of the Centre for Arts & the Sacred at King’s College London.…