Dr. Rebekah Ahrendt

Biography

Rebekah Ahrendt is an Associate Professor of Musicology at Utrecht University and serves as Vice Chair of the COST Action EarlyMuse and Director-At-Large of the International Musicological Society. She was previously an Assistant Professor at Yale University and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Tufts University. Ahrendt has held visiting fellowships at prestigious institutions such as St John’s College, Oxford, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, and she received the Scaliger Fellowship from Leiden University. Ahrendt's academic background includes graduate education at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. Her research specializing in the long seventeenth century covers broad fields including the history of music, politics, international relations, and diplomacy. Ahrendt's notable project, the Brienne Collection, Signed, Sealed, Undelivered, highlighted her ability to trace mobility in music and garnered recognition in global media, culminating in a publication in Nature Communications in 2021. Additionally, she has expertise in early modern Dutch sources and has contributed to various scholarly works, including a chapter in Bloomsbury's Cultural History of Western Music during the Enlightenment (2023).

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