Dr. Elizabeth Parker is an active children’s choral conductor and clinician and serves as the Co-Artistic Director of the Commonwealth Youthchoirs, a Philadelphia not-for-profit organization serving more than 600 PreK-12th students each year.

Within the Temple University's Boyer College of Music and Dance, Dr. Parker instructs undergraduate students in Teaching Choral Music to Inclusive Populations and Inclusive Vocal Development. She also teaches graduate students in Qualitative Research, Sociology of Music Education, and History and Philosophy of Music Education. Parker advises undergraduate through doctoral students and holds three editorial positions including The Journal of Research in Music Education, The Journal of Music Teacher Education and the International Journal of Research on Choral Singing.

Dr. Elizabeth Parker’s research focuses on the musical and social identity development of adolescents and issues of preservice and inservice music teacher identity. She is the sole author of Adolescents on Music published by Oxford University Press. Parker’s peer-reviewed scholarship is published in The Journal of Research in Music Education, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, The Journal of Music Teacher Education, The International Journal of Music Education, Music Education Research, Research Studies in Music Education, Action, Criticism and Theory in Music Education, The Choral Journal, Advances in Music Education Research, and Visions of Research in Music Education. She presents her research regularly at the NAfME Society for Research in Music Education, the Society for Music Teacher Education, the American Choral Directors Association, the American Educational Research Association, and the International Society for Music Education. 

Prior to her work at Temple University, she taught general and choral music education at the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University, GA.