Carol A. Hess is a professor of musicology at Michigan State University, where she is also on the Core Faculty of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Her books include Manuel de Falla and Modernism in Spain, 1898-1936 (University of Chicago Press, 2001) and Sacred Passions: The Life and Music of Manuel de Falla (Oxford University Press, 2005). Among the honors she has received for her scholarship are the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award, the Robert M. Stevenson Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Iberian Music, and the Society for American Music’s Lowens Article Award. She has twice been a Fulbright Lecturer (Spain 1998; Argentina 2005). Her next book, Representing the Good Neighbor: Music, Difference, and the Pan American Dream, explores the effects of Pan Americanism and politics on the reception of Latin American music in the United States and will be published in 2012 by Oxford University Press. In May 2012, she will begin her work as a New York Public Library fellow for her project, “Historiographer of the Airwaves: Gilbert Chase and Latin American Music at the Height of the Good Neighbor Period.”