Cristle Collins Judd

Cristle Collins Judd is an American academic administrator and musicologist serving as the 11th president of Sarah Lawrence College.

Cristle Collins Judd
11th President of Sarah Lawrence College
Incumbent
Assumed office August 2017
Preceded by	Karen R. Lawrence
Personal details
Born	Texas, U.S.
Education	Rice University (BA) King's College London (MA, PhD)
Academic background
Thesis	Aspects of tonal coherence in the motets of Josquin. (1993)
Doctoral advisor	Arnold Whittall
Academic work
Discipline	Musicology
Institutions	University of Melbourne University of Exeter University of Pennsylvania Bowdoin College Sarah Lawrence College

Early life and education

Judd is originally from Texas, and earned her bachelor's degree in music performance from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. She earned her master's degree and PhD from King's College London,^[1] with a dissertation on the 16th-century Italian composer and theorist Gioseffo Zarlino.

Career

Judd began her career as an academic at the University of Melbourne, and later held a role at the University of Exeter.^[1] In 1993, Judd became a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania. She later served as dean for academic affairs and professor of music at Bowdoin College. Prior to taking office as president of Sarah Lawrence, Judd worked at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, where she was a senior program officer for Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities.^[1][2]

Books

• Cristle Collins Judd, ed., Tonal Structures in Early Music (Garland Publishing, 1998)
• Cristle Collins Judd, Reading Renaissance Music Theory: Hearing with the Eyes (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
• Cristle Collins Judd, ed., Musical Theory in the Renaissance (Ashgate, 2013)

See also

• List of presidents of Sarah Lawrence College