Sarah Ann Long

ABOUT

Sarah Ann Long (Ph.D.) is Associate Professor of Musicology at the Michigan State University College of Music. Her research focuses on liturgy in the late medieval and early modern periods in northern France and the Low Countries (1300-1600).  From 2008-2013, Long was a postdoctoral research fellow and visiting instructor at the University of Leuven-KU Leuven (formerly the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) in Belgium. She is co-author (with Inga Behrendt) of the first volume of the Antiphonaria series, Antiphonaria:  A Catalogue of Notated Office Manuscripts Preserved in Flanders (c.1100 – c. 1800) (Brepols, 2015), which contains detailed studies of chant manuscripts held in public and private collections in Belgium. Dr. Long received a two-year Marie Curie IEF Postdoctoral Fellowship from the European Commission (2011-2012) to do research for her first monograph, Music, Liturgy, and Confraternity Devotions in Paris and Tournai, 1300-1550 (University of Rochester Press, 2021). She is currently part of a number of international research initiatives, such as the Single Interface for Music Score Searching and Analysis Project (SIMSSA)/Cantus Ultimus, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, McGill University, Montréal (2015-continuing); and she is a Research Associate of the Alamire Foundation: International Centre for the Study of Music in the Low Countries, University of Leuven (2013-continuing).  She has given service to her field in a number of ways, most recently as President of the International Medieval Society, Paris (2016-2017); as co-general editor of the Journal of the Alamire Foundation (2015-continuing); as a member of the program committee for the Renaissance Society of America (2020-2021); and as a member of the program committee for the International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo. Dr. Long is currently constructing a third book project on music and musicians in the northern French city of Lille from the thirteenth through the fifteenth century.  Long has given courses and guest lectures on a wide range of both historical and ethnomusicological subjects at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Southern Methodist University’s Paris Program, and the University of Leuven. Having joined the faculty at MSU in August 2013, she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on early music (before 1700), Research Methods, music of Sub-Saharan Africa; and since 2019, she has directed the MSU College of Music Mbira Ensemble.  In recognition of her efforts in the classroom, in 2015 she was awarded the Fintz Award for Teaching Excellence in the Arts and Humanities, granted by the MSU Integrated Arts and Humanities program for outstanding performance in teaching.