Brian Anderson returns to the University of North Texas as Senior Lecturer of Music History Pedagogy after earning his PhD in musicology with a related field in music theory at UNT. He earned the Master of Music in Musicology, Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Bachelor of Music Education at Kansas State University.

He is recipient of a 2023 National Endowment for the Humanities grant shared with Candace Bailey and Maristella Feustle.

As an active member of UNT’s Graduate Association of Musicologists und Theorists (GAMuT), he served on the planning committee for two graduate student conferences, organized more than one dozen professional development events, and implemented a mentorship program to pair incoming students with current students in the division of Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology. Additionally, while a UNT student, he was nominated for Outstanding Teaching Fellow, Outstanding Teaching Assistant and was named outstanding graduate student.

Among others, he has presented at the Music Librarian’s Association Annual Conference, Nineteenth Century Studies Association, AMS Southwest and UNT Library’s Day of Digital Scholarship.

Dr. Anderson has extensive classroom teaching experience in both mathematics and music and is an active percussionist. He holds memberships with Society for American Music, American Musicological Society,  AMS Southwest, Texas Society for Music Theory, Team-Based Learning Collaborative and Pi Kappa Lambda.