Michael Alan Anderson is a Professor of Musicology at the University of Rochester Eastman School of Music. He is an award-winning scholar and performer whose work spans centuries-old musical traditions to contemporary musical initiatives centered on community wellbeing. He specializes in sacred music from the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries, illuminating the intersections of devotion, art, and social identity in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. He is the author of Music and Performance in the Book of Hours (Routledge Press, 2022) and St. Anne in Renaissance Music: Devotion and Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Anderson’s articles have appeared in various peer-reviewed journals, and he is a two-time winner of ASCAP’s Deems Taylor Award for outstanding writing about music, for articles published in Early Music History (2011) and in the Journal of the American Musicological Society (2013).