Randall Everett Allsup is an Assistant Professor of Music Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Professor Allsup has served as a book review editor and on the International Advisory Board for Music Education Research, an international forum for cross-cultural investigations in the field of music and music education.

Professor Allsup received a Bachelor of Music from Northwestern University studying saxophone. After graduation, he continued to study saxophone with Jean-Marie Londeix at the Bordeaux Conservatory, France. Allsup was coordinator of music education and director of bands at Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY. Allsup is a recent graduate of Teachers College Columbia University where his 2002 dissertation, Crossing Over: Mutual Learning and Democratic Action in Instrumental Music Education was awarded "Outstanding Dissertation of the Year" by the Council on Research in Music Education.

Dr. Allsup is interested in issues that deal with music education and social justice, cultural contexts of learning, and democracy and social conscious from his work in schools in neglected neighborhoods of New York City. An example of his commitment to social justice - and the possibilities that can be achieved through music education to serve these ends - can be seen through his development of a program at The Heritage School, Musical Heritage: Celebrating Families Through Music. This project is an after-school program bringing families together to create meaningful musical experiences. Voluntary and free of expense, participating families join together to experience music through a supportive, hands-on, and culturally pluralistic environment. Musical Heritage is a collaboration between The Heritage School's music program and graduate students of the TC music program and will bring high school students together with their family to make music. First at Hayes High School in the South Bronx and then at the Our Children's Foundation in West Harlem, Allsup has written about the challenges of reconceptualizing music pedagogy. His teaching is influenced by thinkers like Maxine Greene, Paulo Freire, and John Dewey.