Born in Nashville, Tenn., he received his bachelor’s of music from Middle Tennessee State University, his master’s of music from the University of Northern Colorado, and his educational specialist degree as well as his doctor of philosophy from Louisiana State University. The merger of Mitchell’s formal training and performance as a musician and pedagogical training as a curriculum theorist has an intrinsically interdisciplinary feel. Through his expanded course of study, he has laid the foundation for a program of research on the cultural and historical influences of race, space, gentrification, auditory architecture, and communal wisdom on education. Mitchell’s scholarship brings together curriculum theory, ethnic studies, critical race theory, critical geography, and sound studies.