Bonnie Gordon is a faculty director of UVA's Equity Center, an associate professor of music, co-director of the Sound Justice Lab. She is a music historian who works across disciplines and creative practices and has published numerous articles on Early Modern music and gender and Early American Sound. “Monteverdi’s Unruly Women” appeared in 2004 and “The Courtesans Arts;” a co-edited essay collection appeared in 2006. Her second book Voice Machines: “The Castrato, the Cat Piano and Other Strange Sounds” is in press at the University of Chicago. In addition to her scholarly writing, she has published in The New York Times, Washington Post, Slate and the C-ville Weekly. She plays jazz, rock, and classical viola. Gordon is the recipient of a dissertation grant from the American Association of University Women, a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Brandeis University, a Bunting Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. She has also been the Robert Lehman Visiting Professor at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.