Faculty

Anne Walters Robertson, Claire Dux Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Music, is a music historian with a special interest in French medieval liturgical music, ceremony, and architecture; Guillaume de Machaut and the Ars Nova; music and mysticism; 15th-century polyphony and symbolism; and 20th-century French music. Her books include Guillaume de Machaut and Reims: Context and Meaning in his Musical Works (Cambridge, 2002), which won the Haskins Medal of the Medieval Academy of America and the Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society; and The Service Books of the Royal Abbey of St. Denis: Images of Ritual and Music in the Middle Ages (Oxford, 1991), which earned the John Nicholas Brown Prize of the Medieval Academy. Honors also include the H. Colin Slim and Alfred Einstein Awards of the AMS, the Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize of the Medieval Academy, and the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal of the Yale Graduate School Alumni Association. Professor Robertson served as Deputy Provost for Research and Education (2001-4) and as Chair of the Music Department (1992-98). Ph.D., Yale, 1984; at Chicago since 1984. 

Office: Goodspeed 209
Phone: (773) 834-0882
E-mail: awrx@uchicago.edu