Simon Music Center, M325D
Education
- Ph.D. in Music History, University of Pennsylvania, 2007
- B.A. in Clarinet Performance, UCLA, 2001
Jennifer Saltzstein is professor of music in musicology at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
She was previously professor of musicology at the University of Oklahoma School of Music. Her scholarship on the music of medieval France has engaged issues such as identity, the environment, relationships between music and literature, citation and quotation, gender, sexuality, and violence.
She is the author of The Refrain and the Rise of the Vernacular in Medieval French Music and Poetry (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2013) and editor of Musical Culture in the World of Adam de la Halle (Leiden: Brill, 2019). She has published book chapters in numerous interdisciplinary collections of essays and peer-reviewed articles in Viator, Musica Disciplina, Early Music, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, and Journal of the American Musicological Society (2017 and 2019).
Saltzstein has served the American Musicological Society as a member of the council, Committee on Honorary and Corresponding Members, Program Committee for the Annual Meeting (San Antonio, Texas), H. Colin Slim Award Committee (2020-22, chair in 2022), and Committee on Career Related Issues (member in 2023, chair in 2024).
She has received grants and awards from the Huntington Library Foundation, International Machaut Society, American Musicological Society, and National Endowment for the Humanities, which awarded her both a summer stipend (2014) and a year-long fellowship (2016-17).
In 2018, her article “Rape and Repentance in Two Medieval Motets” (Journal of the American Musicological Society, 2017) was honored with the H. Colin Slim Award of the American Musicological Society, which is awarded each year to a musicological article of exceptional merit, in any language and in any country by a scholar who is past the early stages of their career.
Saltzstein’s latest book, Song, Landscape, and Identity in Medieval Northern France: Toward an Environmental History, was published in 2023 by Oxford University Press.