Dr. Robertson earned the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts from the Manhattan School of Music in May 2022. Her doctoral thesis is entitled “The Beauty and Drama of Opposites in the Concertante Flute Works of Sofia Gubaidulina.” A portion of her doctoral research appears in her article “The Chanting Flute: Uncovering Russian Orthodox and Shamanic Sounds in Sofia Gubaidulina's ...The Deceitful Face of Hope and of Despair (2005)” in the Journal of Sonic Studies (2025).

She has presented at conferences throughout North America and Europe. Most recently, she was invited to present her research on C.S. Lewis’s concept of “chronological snobbery” in the music history classroom at the American Musicological Society’s “Teaching Music History” Conference at New York University. An avid supporter of open knowledge, she recently published an Open Educational Resource anthology for undergraduate music history survey courses from 1750 to 1900.