Scott Gleason received the PhD in music theory from Columbia University. He Co-Chairs the Society for Music Theory's History of Theory Interest Group and serves as Council Representative to the American Musicological Society Greater New York Chapter. He edits for Grove Music Online, The Open Space Magazine, Perspectives of New Music, and formerly for Current Musicology. His writings appear in those publications and in Filigrane, Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa, Notes, Philosophy and the Public Realm, Tacet, and Theoria. He has presented his research in Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. His research treats the history of music theory and the intersection of music and philosophy, and he writes analyses of new musics. His book project historicizes the Princeton School of composer-theorist-improvisers.