James Grier

In 2016, James Grier, Professor of Music History, University of Western Ontario, was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is an award-winning scholar recognized internationally as one of the foremost researchers in medieval music. His work is supported by SSHRC (1989-90, 1998-2001, 2002-5, 2006-9, 2010-13, 2014-19, 2021-26); and fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2002), the Killam Foundation, the National Endowment of the Humanities and American Council of Learned Societies (all 2009); and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2020). His specialized studies on the musical legacy of the eleventh-century monk Adémar de Chabannes appear in The Musical World of a Medieval Monk (Cambridge University Press, 2006); and an edition of Adémar’s music; as well as a palaeographic study of his music hand (Brepols, 2012, 2018). Two monographs, The Critical Editing of Music (translated into Spanish, Japanese translation forthcoming) and Musical Notatio