Professor Kate van Orden joined Berkeley's Music Department in 1996. A specialist in cultural history, she has published many articles and book chapters on French vernacular culture and the Renaissance chanson. Currently Editor-in-Chief (2008-10) of the Journal of the American Musicological Society, she previously edited the volume Music and the Cultures of Print (2000). The research for her other book Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France (2005) prepared her to reconstruct a famous equestrian ballet that was performed for the engagement of Louis XIII in 1612. Her book won the Lewis Lockwood Award from the American Musicological Society, and the ballet received its modern premiere under her direction at the Berkeley Festival of Early Music in 2000. Also a bassoon player, Van Orden has performed in concerts across North America and Europe and has over forty CDs to her credit.