Paul Laird
Director of the Musicology Division from 2000 to 2009, Laird has taught at the University of Kansas since 1994 after previous experience at Binghamton University and University of Denver. He holds a PhD in music from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include the Spanish and Latin American villancico, Leonard Bernstein, the Broadway musical, and early string instruments. He is the author of Towards a History of the Spanish Villancico (Harmonie Park Press, 1997), Leonard Bernstein: A Guide to Research (Routledge, 2002), The Baroque Cello Revival: An Oral History (Scarecrow Press, 2004), and is co-editor of Res musicae: Essays in Honor of James W. Pruett (Harmonie Park Press, 2001) and The Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge University Press, 2002; 2nd edition, 2008). With William A. Everett, Laird wrote The Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical (Scarecrow, 2007). Laird's articles and reviews have appeared in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.), Anuario musical, Nassarre, Revista de Musicología, Early Music, Australian Journal of Musicology, CMS Symposium, MLA Notes, Historical Performance, American Music, American Record Guide, Continuo Magazine, and other journals, conference proceedings, and Festschrifts. Laird has presented papers and lectures at many conferences and universities in the United States and Spain. Laird directs the Instrumental Collegium Musicum and is active as a Baroque cellist, performing with the Spencer Consort. In August 2002, he won a University of Kansas W. T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence. His current projects include a book on Bernstein's Chichester Psalms for the College Music Society Sourcebooks on American Music series and a study of the musical theater of Stephen Schwartz.
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