Julia Eklund Koza (B.A. magna cum laude, St. Olaf College, 1974; M.A. University of Iowa, 1978; Ph.D. University of Minnesota, 1988) is a professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and the School of Music. In addition she is a Faculty Affiliate in the Women's Studies Program and has served as Chair of Music Education since 1998. Her widely published research focuses on equity and social justice issues in education, music, and music education, as well as on corporate influence on music education policy. Her work has appeared in the Musical Quarterly, Journal of Research in Music Education, Philosophy of Music Education Review, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies, Educational Foundations, the Quarterly, and Music Educators Journal. Author of chapters in a number of edited collections and of the book Stepping Across: Four Interdisciplinary Studies of Education and Cultural Politics (2003), she is currently working on a second book, Kissing the Scars: Re-Imagining Professionalism in Academe. She has served on the editorial board of several scholarly journals, including the Journal of Research in Music Education, the Quarterly, and GEMS. Professor Koza began her teaching career in River Falls, Wisconsin, where she taught choral and general music in the public schools.