Jess Herdman is an editor, indexer, and book designer, and a cultural historian. They are the Executive Director of the Canadian Association of Learned Journals, and the Managing Editor for the bilingual journals Canadian Journal of Development Studies and Intersections: Canadian Journal of Music/Revue canadienne de musique. Jess’s research explores music, gender, poverty, religion, violence, and colonialism. They hold a PhD in musicology from UC Berkeley, where they completed a dissertation that explored how music was used to foment violence and mark out difference during the Wars of Religion in Lyon. Their subsequent work in two postdoctoral fellowships focused on the traces of a matriarchal Wendat musical politics of diplomacy and survivance.