[7 May 2008]
(Media-Newswire.com) – PHILADELPHIA ñ- Carolyn Abbate, who ranks among the worldís foremost musicologists, has been appointed the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania, effective July 1. Abbate comes to Penn from Harvard University where she is the Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Fanny Peabody Professor of Music.