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William A. Everett is associate professor and area coordinator of music history/musicology. Prior to coming to UMKC in 1998, Dr. Everett taught at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas for twelve years. He holds degrees from Texas Tech University (B.M., music theory), Southern Methodist University (M.M., music history, instrumental conducting), and the University of Kansas (Ph.D., musicology). He teaches undergraduate courses in music history, graduate courses in medieval music and music of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, American musical theater, national identity in music, the history of chamber music, and research and bibliography in music. He received the 2003 Muriel Ewing Kauffman Award for Excellence in Teaching. His principal areas of research are the American musical theater, national identity in music and the creation of place, and the music of Croatia, Finland, and Great Britain. He is author of British Piano Trios, Quartets, and Quintets, 1850-1950: A Checklist (Warren, MI: Harmonie Park Press, 2000), The Musical: A Guide to Research (New York and London: Routledge, 2004), Sigmund Romberg (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007), and Rudolf Friml (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, forthcoming 2008). He co-edited and contributed to the Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, second edition forthcoming) and On Bunker’s Hill: Essays in Honor of J. Bunker Clark (Sterling Heights, MI: Harmonie Park Press, 2007) and is co-author of the Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, forthcoming 2007). His articles and reviews have appeared in American Music, Opera Quarterly, International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, Journal of the American Viola Society, Journal of Croatian Studies, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, and elsewhere. He has contributed chapters to several books and encyclopedias, including the Dictionary of American Biography, St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, and New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition. He has given papers at conferences and symposia in the U.S., Canada, Croatia, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, and the U.K. He is past president of the Great Plains Chapter of the College Music Society and served as reviews editor for College Music Symposium from 2000 to 2006. He was treasurer of the Society for American Music from 1996 to 2001.