Kristin Wendland is the NEH Project Director of the Tango in Humanities Conference and Professor of Teaching in the Department of Music at Emory University. With her tango research partner Kacey Link, she has co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Tango and co-authored and published Tracing Tangueros: Argentine Tango Instrumental Music (2016), and articles for Chamber Music Magazine (2018), Naxos Musicology (2020), and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (2021). Her book The Power of Practice: How music and yoga transformed the life and work of Yehudi Menuhin (2024)examines the connections between music and yoga. She is most recently the co-editor of the new SUNY Press series, Music as a Healing Art.