Catherine Saucier

Catherine Saucier, associate professor of musicology at Arizona State University and affiliate faculty of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, holds a doctorate and master's in music history from the University of Chicago and a bachelor's in cello performance from Indiana University. Professor Saucier specializes in late-medieval sacred music, hagiography (saints' legends), and city culture in the Low Countries, specifically the Belgian city of Liège and Dutch town of 's-Hertogenbosch, where she has conducted extensive archival and liturgical research supported by grants and fellowships from the Quebec government, the Medieval Academy of America, the University of Chicago, the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and ASU. Her current research focuses on the musical veneration of St John the Evangelist in the diocese of Liège and beyond. Publications include her monograph, A Paradise of Priests: Singing the Civic and Episcopal Hagiography of Medieval Liège (University of Rochester Press, 2014), an essay in the refereed collection Hagiography and the History of Latin Christendom, 500-1500, ed. Samantha Kahn Herrick (Brill, 2020), and articles in Early Music History, The Senses and Society, Speculum, Acta Musicologica, the Journal of the Alamire Foundation, the Journal of Musicology, Plainsong and Medieval Music, and the Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis. Her edition of the office chants for St John the Evangelist for the Historiae series was recently published by the Institute for Mediaeval Music.

At ASU, Saucier has taught the undergraduate survey Music History: Ancient Greece-1750 and currently teaches undergraduate electives in Music in Renaissance Cities and Recycled Music: Medieval to Modern, as well as graduate courses on Medieval Music and Ritual, Music and City Culture/Civic Contexts in Renaissance Music, Music and Global Exploration c.1500-1650, Musical Borrowing, History of Choral Music and Institutions, Topics in Renaissance Music, and Music Bibliography. She has taught previously at Duke University, The University of Chicago, and the University of Oklahoma.

Professor Saucier is the co-founder and former faculty sponsor of the ASU Early Music Chamber Choir and former president of the Phoenix Early Music Society.