Anne Walters Robertson (born August 1, 1952) is an American musicologist who specializes in medieval music from the Early Christianity era to the Late Middle Ages.
A 1991 Guggenheim Fellow, she is the author of The Service-Books of the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis (1991), the winner of the 1995 John Nicholas Brown Prize, and Guillaume de Machaut and Reims (2002), which won the 2003 Otto Kinkeldey Award and 2006 Haskins Medal.
[1] She later went to Yale University, where she obtained her MPhil (1981) and PhD (1984);[1] her doctoral dissertation Music and liturgy at the Abbey of Saint-Denis, 567-1567: a survey of the primary sources was supervised by Craig M.
[4] She also served as chair of the UChicago Department of Music from 1992 to 1998, in 2008, and from 2014 to 2016, as well as dean of the Division of the Humanities from 2016 until 2023 and deputy provost for research and education from 2001 to 2004.
[4] Robertson specializes in medieval music from the Early Christianity era to the Late Middle Ages, particularly with one of her themes being the royal family of France.