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Education

2008 The University of Chicago, B.A.
2011 University of Cambridge, MPhil
2019 University of Michigan, Ph.D.

Courses Taught

Music Fundamentals
Music for Life
Music History I, II and III
Special Topics in Music
United We Stand: Music, Protest, and Social Change in the Twentieth Century

Career Specialties

Anne Heminger is a musicologist specializing in music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Focusing on the English Reformation, her research explores the intersections of music and religious change in the Tudor period, investigating issues of identity formation, confessionalism, musical style, and genre.

Professional and Community Activities

Heminger鈥檚 recent work examines how the composition, dissemination, and performance of religious music shaped the early modern construction of English identity in the sixteenth century. Her book, Reforming Community: Music, Religious Change, and English Identity in Mid-Tudor London (Clemson University Press/Liverpool University Press, 2025), studies this phenomenon during the reigns of Edward VI (r. 1547鈥�1553) and Mary I (r. 1553鈥�1558), which are often overlooked in scholarship on music and the English Reformation. Using London as its primary point of reference, Reforming Community demonstrates that religious music played both explicit and implicit roles in English identity construction; while the former stemmed from government and ecclesiastical music policies, printed musical repertoires aligned with authorized doctrine, and officially sanctioned public performances, the latter grew from the ways English men and women interpreted contemporary religious policy in their own parish churches. As a result, music allowed for both the expression of religious allegiances and the imposition of new doctrines at a particularly tumultuous time in English history.

Heminger鈥檚 work has also been published in the journals Early Music History (鈥淢usic Theory at Work,鈥� 2018) and Reformation (鈥淢usical Devotions for Mixed Audiences,鈥� 2022), as well as appeared in edited collections on performance (Early Modern Performance Beyond the Public Stage, Bloomsbury Arden 2025), print culture (Printing and Misprinting, Oxford University Press 2023), and religious reform (Celebrating Lutheran Church Music, Uppsala University Press 2019). Beyond the English Reformation, her research and teaching interests include late medieval devotional culture, liturgy and ritual studies, the development of music printing and technology, and 20th-century music.

Honors and Awards

2023 Outstanding Faculty Achievement in Teaching Award, College of Arts & Letters