2025 AMS Honorary Members

Katherine Ellis is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of the Academia Europaea, and the 1684 Professor of Music, University of Cambridge.

She has published four books on multiple aspects of French Music: canon formation, the early music revival, and the politics of plainchant. She was winner of the Kinkeldey Award for French Musical Life (2022). Her work focuses on the many aspects of French musical culture in the long nineteenth century and beyond (from medieval chant to Les six). She uses multiple methodologies and starting points to deliver a nuanced and multivalent understanding of French music and politics. Her edited volumes explore multiple ways of understanding the connections between text and music. Her numerous awards and fellowships from English and American scholarly organizations are a witness to her importance to the field of musicology. Her service on the Board of the American Musicological Society as Vice-President, while living in the UK, demonstrates exceptional devotion to the Society.

Cristle Collins Judd is the President of Sarah Lawrence College, and Professor Emerita of Bowdoin College.

She is the author of Reading Renaissance Music Theory: Hearing with the Eyes, and editor of Musical Theory in the Renaissance and Tonal Structures of Early Music. Her edition of Zarlino’s Motets on the Song of Songs were a major contribution to our understanding of this central music theorist. Her work combines musicology and music theory, with a focus on the musical structures and tonal systems that underly Renaissance polyphony. She links the ideas found in Renaissance music theory treatises with repertoire, providing insights into how the authors of treatises chose their examples and where they found them. She was the senior program officer for Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities in the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. As a college president she is a leader in higher education. Her life-long institutional service to the AMS and the SMT in multiple capacities have been major contributions to both societies.

Tammy Kernodle is University Distinguished Professor of Music and the Park Creative Arts Professor at Miami University, Ohio.

She is the author of Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams, and of Music in American Black Life, 1945-2020. She was the Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia of African American Music, and contributor to the other major reference works on African American music. Her numerous publications have enlarged and enriched our understanding of the centrality of Black music in America, and have inspired many to follow her. Her awards for service to the Society of American Music and from her own university are witness to her dedication as a teacher and administrator. Her public-facing work with museums, digital projects, and music organizations have allowed her to share her wisdom and knowledge with all kinds of people. Her service on numerous committees of the AMS, and as President of Society of American Music, have had a huge impact on both societies.