Sondra Wieland Howe is an independent scholar in Minnesota. She holds an A.B. in music from Wellesley College, A.M.T. in music education from Radcliffe College, and an M.A. in musicology and a Ph.D. in music education from the University of Minnesota. She is an independent piano teacher in Wayzata, Minnesota, and has served as musicologist for the Minnesota High School Music Listening Contest. Her research area is the history of music education and women in music and she is the author of Luther Whiting Mason: International Music Educator (Harmonie Park Press, 1997), book chapters, and articles in the Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, Journal of Research in Music Education, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, and the Philosophy of Music Education Review.