Mark Rodgers recently earned his PhD in Music History at Yale University, working on Italian vernacular song and the history of tonality. He majored in music and comparative literature as an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, then attended the University of Oxford, where he earned a masters degree in musicology. He has presented his research at the American Musicological Society, the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, the Renaissance Society of America, and others conferences focused on early modern topics. One of his current research projects involves what he terms the “cultural archive of tonality,” with particular attention to Italian vernacular genres. He is also writing about the history of the Italian madrigal, as well as the Romanesca, a melodic and harmonic pattern found in many compositions across the 16^th and 17^th centuries. He was awarded the Prize Teaching Fellowship for his teaching in Yale College, and he has also taught as a member of the music history faculty at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.