GIA Publications - Artist - Josselyn-Cranson, Heather OSL

Heather Josselyn-Cranson, OSL, is the Sister Margaret William McCarthy Endowed Chair in Music at Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts, where she teaches courses in music and religious studies. An active scholar in the field of liturgical music, she has contributed to the Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology, Hymns and Hymnody: Historical and Theological Introductions, and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Music and Christian Theology. Her research includes work on the music of Emerging congregations, studies of the music of the Gilbertine communities in Medieval England, a survey of the hymnody of World War I, and consideration of the ways in which style and function relate within different liturgical traditions. Josselyn-Cranson is a member of the North American Academy of Liturgy, the Fellowship of United Methodists in Music and Worship Arts, and the Order of Saint Luke, an ecumenical religious order dedicated to sacramental and liturgical scholarship, education, and practice.