Musicologist Elizabeth Bergman earned her A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude) from Columbia University and Ph.D. with distinction from Yale. Before coming to Baruch, she was a member of the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned tenure and promotion to Associate Professor and was also the inaugural recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award from the College of Fine Arts. Most recently she was on the faculty at Princeton University with appointments in the Department of Music and Program in American Studies.

She specializes in music of the United States and has published widely on such subjects as 20th-century concert music, music and leftwing politics, American cultural history, and studies in compositional process. Grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Music Library Association, American Musicological Association, and Library of Congress have supported her research.

Her articles on Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, William Billings, and Sergey Prokofiev have appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals and edited collections. Twice she won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence in musical scholarship, and she received the biennial Kurt Weill Prize for the best article on musical theatre. Her first book, Music for the Common Man: Aaron Copland during the Depression and War (Oxford), was awarded Honorable Mention for the Lowens Book Award from the Society for American Music.

She has held leadership roles in the preeminent professional association in musicology, the American Musicological Society, and served as editor of a leading journal in the field, The Journal of Musicology.

Professor Bergman also regularly writes program notes and Playbill features for Carnegie Hall.

Music for the Common Man: Aaron Copland during the Depression and War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

The Selected Correspondence of Aaron Copland. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006.