Rebecca Cypess is the former Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Mason Gross and an Associate Professor in the Music Department. She is committed to fostering interdisciplinary research, teaching, and artistic practice; enhancing the school’s climate and its commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion; and promoting the work of Mason Gross’s faculty, students, and staff. From 2018 to 2020, Cypess served as Associate Director of the department of music, where she worked to enrich the department’s academic and artistic life while advancing initiatives that increased operational clarity and amplified the voices of students. In her teaching and research, Cypess specializes in the history, interpretation, and performance practices of music in 17th- and 18th-century Europe and America, as well as music in Jewish culture, music in the history of science, and women in music. She has been the recipient of two awards from the American Musicological Society: the Noah Greenberg Award for contributions to historical performance (2018) and the Ruth A. Solie Award for “a collection of musicological essays of exceptional merit” (2023).
Starting July 1, 2024, Cypess will become Dean of Undergraduate Liberal Arts and Sciences at Yeshiva University.