Victoria Lindsay Levine earned the Ph.D. in ethnomusicology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1990). She researches the musical cultures of Native North Americans and is the author, co-author, or editor of numerous publications, including Choctaw Music and Dance (with James Howard, 1990) and Writing American Indian Music: Historic Transcriptions, Notations, and Arrangements (2002). She has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Society for Ethnomusicology, among others. Since 1988, Levine has taught ethnomusicology and Southwestern Studies at Colorado College, where she has served as the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor, the W. M. Keck Foundation Director of the Hulbert Center for Southwestern Studies, and the Christine S. Johnson Professor of Music. In 1993, she founded the Colorado College Indonesian music and dance program, with which she performs.