Professor Margaret Flood is the Coordinator of Music Education at Florida Southern College. She a doctoral candidate in music education at The Frost School of Music—University of Miami. Previously, she served as a teaching assistant and guest lecturer on women in music for the musicology department. As a clarinetist, she was an active performer with the Frost Wind Ensemble as well as other Florida ensembles.

Margaret has twelve years’ experience teaching music in New York and Florida, predominantly as a secondary band director. She is founder of Sinfonia Nobilis honor band for private school students in Southwest Florida. Recently, she received the Florida Music Educators Association Enrollment Award for rebuilding a band program at the Seacrest Country Day School in Naples, Florida. She is an active woodwind clinician, studio instructor, and adjudicator for the Florida Bandmasters’ Association.

Margaret holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from Syracuse University and a Master of Music Education with a Graduate Certificate in World Music from The Florida State University. Her research interests include gender discourse in band, the biographies of woman band director leadership of the Florida Bandmasters’ Association, the code-switching tendencies of secondary band directors, and the documentation of the lives of woman musicians of the social-cultural projects in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.

While at FSU, she received the Ada Belle Winthrop-King Scholarship for studies in Portuguese language and culture to complete her master’s thesis research on the women and children of Projeto Didá. At the Frost School, she was awarded the Theodore Presser Graduate Award and a National Band Association Project Grant that allowed for the creation of the Frost Young Women Conductors’ Symposium.

Professor Flood has published in the Florida Music Director, presented research and practitioner clinics at the International Society for Music Education Research Commission, the National Association for Music Education Annual In-service Conference, the Florida Music Educators Association Annual Conference, the Desert Skies Symposium, and the International Women and/in Musical Leadership Conference in London, England. She has an upcoming book chapter titled, “It’s not about me! The Life and Leadership of Cathi Leibinger,” in the Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond.