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Jeremy Smith is Professor of Musicology in the College of Music at the University of Colorado Boulder, a position he has held since 2016, following promotions from Associate Professor (2004–2015) and Assistant Professor (2000–2003). From 2010 to 2013, he served as Director of the Center for British and Irish Studies. Earlier in his career, Smith was Assistant Professor of Musicology at the State University of New York at Fredonia from 1998 to 2000, Visiting Assistant Professor of Music History at Millikin University from 1997 to 1998, and Instructor of Music Appreciation at the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks from 1996 to 1997. He earned his Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1997, M.F.A. in Piano Performance from the University of California, Irvine in 1990, and B.A. in Music from Washington College in 1985.

Smith's research specializes in music history of the Renaissance era in England and the continent, with secondary interests in progressive rock and interdisciplinary studies involving English portraiture and poetry. His major publications include the monograph Thomas East and Music Publishing in Renaissance England (Oxford University Press, 2003); the edited volume William Byrd’s Psalmes, Sonets and Songs, Vol. 12 of The Byrd Edition (Stainer & Bell, 2004); Sleuthing the Muse: Essays in Honor of William F. Prizer (Pendragon, 2012, co-editor); Verse and Voice in Byrd’s Song Collections of 1588 and 1589 (Boydell, 2016); and Tallis and Byrd’s Cantiones Sacrae (1575): A Sacred Argument (Boydell, 2023). Key peer-reviewed articles feature 'Music and Late Elizabethan Politics: The Identities of Oriana and Diana' in the Journal of the American Musicological Society (2005), 'William Byrd’s Fall from Grace and his First Solo Publication of 1588' in Music & Politics (2007), and 'The dilatory space of While that the sun' in Early Music (2012). Among his honors are the Richard S. Hill Award from the Music Library Association in 2001 and 2007, the Provost’s Faculty Achievement Award from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2006, the BFA Award for Excellence in Teaching and Pedagogy in 2011, and a National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant in 1999. A founding member of the editorial board of Music & Politics, Smith has presented papers at meetings of the American Musicological Society and the Medieval and Renaissance Music Society and contributed entries to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.