Susan Rankin
Susan Kathleen Rankin, FBA, FSA, is a musicologist. Since 2006, she has been Professor of Medieval Music at the University of Cambridge; she has also been a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, since 1984. Rankin completed her undergraduate degree at Newnham College, Cambridge, 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 doctorate 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 Henry Bradshaw Society. According to her British Academy 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".Honours
Rankin was awarded the Dent Medal by the Royal Musical Association in 1995. In 2006, she was elected to the fellowship of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and in 2009 was also elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.Selected works
