Marjoris Regus (she/ella) is an Assistant Professor of Music Education at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where she teaches courses on reggaetón, Foundations of Music Education, Culturally Responsive Teaching, and the Sociology and Psychology of Music Education.

Her research explores race, culture, and musical experience through ethnomusicological and sociocultural lenses. Drawing on Critical Race Theory, Latino Critical Theory, Black Critical Theory, and Community Cultural Wealth, she examines how AfroCaribbean and AfroLatiné students navigate language, behavior, and music within academic and social spaces. Using qualitative methods such as counterstorytelling and phenomenology, her work investigates how identity, belonging, and racialize experiences shape music teaching and learning.

Her dissertation, “‘Ni de Aquí ni de Allá’ Resonates with Me a Lot’: The Experiences of AfroLatina/o/x Students in Undergraduate Music Education Degree Programs,” received the National Center for Institutional Diversity and Rackham Graduate School’s Anti-Racism Grant at the University of Michigan.

Regus has served on the editorial boards of Visions of Research in Music Education and Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education and is an active member of the American Educational Research Association and the International Society for Music Education. Her scholarship appears in the Journal of Research in Music Education, International Journal of Music Education, and Teachers College Press, and she regularly presents at national and international conferences. She earned her Ph.D. in Music Education from the University of Michigan and holds a bachelor’s in Music Education and a master’s in Saxophone Performance from the University of Utah.

Before Rutgers, Regus taught high school band, jazz band, choir, orchestra, music theory, piano, and music appreciation in Salt Lake City, Utah.