Assistant Professor of Musicology Dr. Virginia Lamothe was recently elected as Secretary of the Society of Seventeenth Century Music . The Society is an international society dedicated to the study and performance of seventeenth-century music and related arts.

Lamothe will serve a three-year term coordinating the semi-annual newsletter, annual meetings and management of the Society’s web page. As secretary, she will also serve as a liaison to the International Heirich Schütz society. She has been a member of the Society since 2001 and has published in the Society’s Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music.