As vice provost of Berklee College of Music, Robert Lagueux oversees faculty development, graduate programs, academic programs, planning, and curriculum, the library and learning resources, and concert operations. He received his bachelor’s degree in music and history from Harvard University and his MPhil and PhD degrees in music history from Yale University. While at Yale, he worked extensively with the Yale Graduate Teaching Center and was editor and coauthor of Becoming Teachers, the university’s official teaching guide for graduate students.

As a Fulbright scholar in Hong Kong, Lagueux supported the city’s transition to a four-year American model of higher education, providing resources and guidance on general education, faculty and graduate student teaching, and programs for first-year students. He has led workshops on teaching and learning in China, Thailand, and Vietnam.

A historian of medieval music, liturgy, and drama by training and a percussionist and drummer by avocation, Lagueux has published and presented on a variety of topics around teaching, learning, and music history, including in Comparative Drama and the Journal of Music History Pedagogy. His book A Liturgical Play for the Medieval Feast of Fools: The Laon Ordo Joseph was published by Boydell and Brewer in 2023.