Deborah Bradley is an Assistant Professor of Music Education. She completed her Ph.D. at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Her dissertation, Global Song, Global Citizens? Multicultural Choral Music Education and the Community Youth Choir: Constituting the Multicultural Human Subject, investigates how a world music choral curriculum functions as performative in adolescent identity construction. The research indicates that engaging with world choral music (global song) within an anti-racism pedagogy may under particular circumstances serve to disrupt subjectivities of race, nationality, and ethnicity, and contribute to an emerging multicultural human subjectivity. Dr. Bradley was a recipient from 2001-2005 of the coveted Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) doctoral fellowship.

Dr. Bradley earned both an M. Mus (Education) and a B. Mus from the University of Toronto. In addition, she earned the Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Toronto diploma in Organ Performance, and the Artist-Teacher diploma from the Choral Music Experience Institute in Arvika, Sweden. She taught in the Music Education department of the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, from 1997-2005. She taught both choral and general music at Sherwood Heights Elementary School in Mississauga, Ontario, and at Branksome Hall in Toronto. She is the author of Make Every Note Beautiful: A Case Study of the Artistic Pedagogy of Douglas Bodle, published by the Canadian Music Education Research Centre.

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