Elizabeth Margulis has a B.M. in piano performance from the Peabody Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Veda Kaplinsky, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her research approaches music from the perspective of cognitive science. Her work has appeared in diverse journals including Music Perception, Psychology of Music, Journal of New Music Research, Music Theory Spectrum, Computer Music Journal, Review of General Psychology, Human Brain Mapping, American Journal of Bioethics, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, and Journal of Music Theory. A co-authored chapter on music and expectation will appear in the Handbook of Music and Emotion, forthcoming from Oxford University Press. She has presented at conferences including the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, the International Conference on Music and Gesture, the annual meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, and the annual meeting of the Society for Music Theory. She has been a fellow at the Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School and at the Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory. She is interested in arts advocacy, and received a Classical Music Initiative Grant from American Public Media. She serves on the Executive Board of the Society for Music Theory. She is involved in several research projects with students and received the 2008 Faculty Gold Medal for mentoring undergraduates. Before coming to the University of Arkansas, she was on the faculty of the music cognition program at Northwestern University.