The Hugh Hodgson School of Music is pleased to announce that Eleanor Price will be joining us as assistant professor of musicology beginning August 1, 2026.

Eleanor Price is joining the faculty of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia from KU Leuven in Belgium, where she is currently a postdoctoral research associate. Price earned her PhD in historical musicology from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester in 2025, where she also earned a masters in musicology (2021) and an advanced certificate in ethnomusicology (2023). Price’s research focuses on identity-crafting gestures present in the thirteenth-century musical genre known as the motet. Her scholarly interests include the medieval relationship between music and literature, premodern conceptions of social identity, the global Middle Ages, and digital humanities, and she is the author of the Motet Text Database.

Price has presented internationally at conferences in musicology and medieval studies, and her 2023 paper at the International Congress on Medieval Studies won the Karrer Travel Award. Her research has been supported by the American Musicological Society’s M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet Award for Research in France, the Elsa T. Johnson Fellowship in Musicology, and the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Travel Grant. She has taught extensively at the Eastman School of Music and Roberts Wesleyan University, and currently serves as the Belgian American Educational Foundation’s Boynton Fellow at KU Leuven.