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Katherine Bergeron took the Ph.D. in Music at Cornell University in 1989 and taught at the University of North Carolina, Tufts University, and the University of California at Berkeley before coming to Brown in 2004, where she was a professor of musicology and chair of the Department of Music. In 2006, Bergeron was appointed as Dean of the College, Brown's highest undergraduate academic office.

In her scholarship she has specialized in the vocal repertories of turn-of-the-century France. Her book, Decadent Enchantments (University of California Press, 1998), was a study of the 19th-century revival of plainchant by French Benedictine monks, and won the Deems-Taylor Award from ASCAP in 1999. She recently completed Voice Lessons, a history of the French mélodie in the years around 1900. In addition, Bergeron is a singer of eclectic tastes. She has performed Gregorian chant and the blues, the court music of central Java and contemporary pop music, as well as the experimental vocal idioms associated with the 20th century avant-garde.

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