John Michael Cooper is the author of Margaret Bonds: "The Montgomery Variations" and Du Bois "Credo" (2023) and editor of more than 100 scholarly editions of music by Margaret Bonds, Felix Mendelssohn, and Florence B. Price with A-R Editions, Carus-Verlag, Hildegard Publishing Company, and G. Schirmer. He is the author of the entries on Margaret Bonds and Florence Price in MGG Online. A Fulbright fellow, he holds the Ph.D. from Duke University and currently teaches at Southwestern University.