Susan Kathleen Rankin, FBA, FSA, is an English musicologist.
Rankin completed her undergraduate degree at Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1975, and then graduated from King's College London with a Master of Music degree the following year; in 1982, she was awarded a doctorate by the University of Cambridge.
[1][2] According to her British Academy profile, her research relates to "Western medieval music and its transmission and notation from the origins to the thirteenth century and the development of the Latin liturgy, with an especial focus on ritual".
[3] Rankin was awarded the Dent Medal by the Royal Musical Association in 1995.
In 2006, she was elected to the fellowship of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA),[1] and in 2009 was also elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.