Dr. Nathan Kruse 
email: nathan.kruse@unt.edu
Education:
B.M.E. – Butler University, 1994
M.M.E – University of New Mexico, 1999
Ph.D. – Michigan State University, 2007
Area of Expertise:
Instrumental Music Education
Nathan Kruse is an assistant professor of music in the Division of Music Education at the University of North Texas, where he currently teaches music education methods courses (MUED 2310 and 4109), supervises instrumental music student teachers, assists the Denton New Horizons Senior Band, and serves as the faculty advisor for Mu Phi Epsilon.
Dr. Kruse taught for ten years in the Carrizozo, Ruidoso, and Albuquerque Public Schools in New Mexico and at Northwest High School in Jackson, Michigan, and he remains an active conductor, clinician, and performer. His current research interests include adult music education and ethnographic traditions of community music. In addition to presenting at national and international conferences and having several articles published in refereed journals, Dr. Kruse is also the Southwestern Division Representative of the MENC Adult and Community Music Education Special Research Interest Group (ACME SRIG).
Dr. Kruse is a member of the College Music Society, the Texas Music Educators Association, MENC, Mu Phi Epsilon, and a life-time member of Kappa Kappa Psi and an honorary member of Tau Beta Sigma. In addition, he was a graduate fellow in the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and was the recipient of both the 2007 Excellence-in-Teaching Citation at Michigan State University and the 2008 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the ACME SRIG.