Faculty

Robert L. Kendrick, Department Chair and Professor of Music, is a music historian specializing in music of early modern Europe and its intersections with religion, politics, gender, urban culture, and fine arts. He is author of Celestial Sirens: Nuns and Music in Early Modern Milan (1996, Oxford) and The Sounds of Milan, 1585-1650 (2002, Oxford), as well as a number of articles (including the chapter on sacred vernacular song and oratorio in The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music, ed. J. Butt and T. Carter [Cambridge, 2005]). He also has interests in sacred music in “colonial” Spanish America and in traditional music in the Caribbean. In 2006 he won a University-wide award for graduate teaching. Kendrick has held fellowships at the Harvard University Society of Fellows (1993-96) and at the National Humanities Center (1998). Ph.D., New York University; 1993; at Chicago since 1997.


Office: Goodspeed 313
Phone: (773) 702-8500
E-mail: rkendric@uchicago.edu