Susan Kathleen Rankin, FBA, FSA, is a musicologist. Since 2006, she has been Professor of Medieval Music at the

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; she has also been a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, since 1981 (having previously been a research fellow there for three years). Rankin completed her undergraduate degree at

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, in 1975, and then graduated from King's College London with a Master of Music degree the following year; in 1982, she was awarded a

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by the University of Cambridge. From 1981 to 1984, she was a Research Fellow at Emmanuel College before becoming a Fellow. In 1990, Rankin was appointed an assistant lecturer in Medieval Music at Cambridge; she was promoted three years later to lecturer, and then to reader in 1999. Since 2013, she has also been Chair of the

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."Rankin, Prof. Susan Kathleen"
''Who's Who'' (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2017). Retrieved 2 May 2018."Prof Susan Rankin"
''University of Cambridge''. Retrieved 2 May 2018. According to her

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profile, her research relates to "Western medieval music and its transmission and notation from the origins to the thirteenth century and the development of the Latin liturgy, with an especial focus on ritual"."Professor Susan Rankin"
''British Academy''. 2 May 2018.

Honours

Rankin was awarded the Dent Medal by the

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in 1995. In 2006, she was elected to the fellowship of the

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(FSA), and in 2009 was also elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's

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for the humanities and social sciences.

Selected works

* ''The Music of the Medieval Liturgical Drama in France and England'', 2 vols (Garland, 1989) * * (Co-edited with D. Hiley) ''Music in the Medieval English Liturgy:

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Centennial Essays'' (Oxford University Press, 1993) * (Co-edited with W. Arlt) ''Stiftsbibliothek St Gallen Codices 484 & 381'', 3 vols (Amadeus, 1996) * ''The Winchester Troper: Introduction and Facsimile'', Early English Church Music series, no. 50 (Stainer and Bell, 2007)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rankin, Susan Living people English musicologists Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge Alumni of King's College London Fellows of Emmanuel College, Cambridge Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America Year of birth missing (living people)