Monique M. Ingalls is a researcher, teacher, network builder, and church musician. She is Associate Professor of Music and Director of Research & Graduate Programs for the Dunn Center for Christian Music Studies at Baylor University. Published in the fields of ethnomusicology, religious & theological studies, media studies, and hymnology, she is the author of Singing the Congregation (Oxford University Press, 2018) and co-editor of six academic books, primarily on aspects of congregational singing. Her research centers on present-day Christian congregational and choral music-making, addressing themes such as worship music in global Pentecostalism, online religious music practices, musical localization within world Christianities, and Black British gospel music. She is co-founder of the biennial “Christian Congregational Music: Local and Global Perspectives” conference and serves as senior editor of the Congregational Music Studies Book Series with Routledge Press. In addition to her classical training as a pianist and choral singer, she has also enjoyed stints as a cover band keyboardist, a Javanese gamelan player, a singer of Georgian polyphony, and a folk/pop/gospel choir director. Her newest musical challenge is learning to play accordion.