Stephanie Cronenberg, Associate Professor of Music, was appointed to the Mason Gross School of the Arts faculty in 2016. She currently serves as the MGSA Director of Research, the Area Head of Music Education, and the faculty contact for the MGSA Arts Management and Leadership Minor. Dr. Cronenberg specializes in narrative, survey, and mixed methods approaches to social inquiry. Her research interests emerge from her teaching practice and currently focus on middle level arts learning, general music, mixed methods research practices, and current teacher education practices. In 2022, she published her first book, Fertile Ground in Middle Level General Music. Her 2016 mixed methods dissertation, Music at the Middle: Principles that Guide Middle Level General Music Teachers, received third place in the 2017 Outstanding Dissertation Award Competition hosted by the AERA Mixed Methods Special Interest Group. Her recent research projects focus on middle level arts education, teaching middle level general music and the methodological implementation of the dialectic stance in mixed methods inquiry. Her research has been published in Arts Education Policy Review, Bulletin for the Council on Research in Music Education, International Journal of Music Education, International Journal of Research and Method in Education, Journal of Mixed Methods Research, and Research in Middle Level Education Online. Read the online final report from a grant-funded national middle level music education survey.

Prior to her appointment at Rutgers University, Dr. Cronenberg taught 7th and 8th grade general music at Campus Middle School for Girls as well as undergraduate and graduate courses at the College of Education and School of Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to 2011, she served as Director of Education and Community Programs at The Choral Arts Society of Washington (DC) and taught 4th through 7th grade general music at Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, MD.