Rebecca Schwartz-Bishir has an MA and a PhD in Historical Musicology from the University of Michigan. A specialist in the relationships of music and dance, over the past fourteen years she has taught classes in musicology, dance history, and ballet. In addition to working for five years at MUSA, the publishing branch of the American Musicological Society, she has been employed as a free-lance editor of music and scholarly texts. As a professional academic writing coach, Dr. Schwartz-Bishir has worked with more than 1000 graduate students and professors in the humanities, arts, social sciences, and sciences. By providing her clients with methods to get unstuck and become more productive in their writing and research, she has guided them to successful outcomes in their endeavors. Her coaching involves time and project management, overcoming perfectionism and other internal negative dialogues that slow down the writing process, and motivating people to work with realistic expectations and behaviors. She considers academic writing an enriching process from which people can grow as thinkers and as individuals.
