Zachary is a Teaching Consultant within Florida State University’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching, providing engaging programming for graduate students across the university. He joined the center after completing his Ph.D. in Music Theory, also at Florida State University, where he taught extensively within the undergraduate Music Theory and Aural Skills sequence. He holds a Masters degree in Music Theory from Michigan State University and a Bachelors in Music from Appalachian State University. As a music theorist, Zachary is interested in the ways that meaning is expressed through music. His research has explored various musical styles ranging from 20th century piano repertoire by Florence Price to musical theater scores as recent as 2022. His dissertation aims to illuminate the ways in which race, gender, and sexuality are musically represented in the scores of Tony-award winning composer, Jeanine Tesori (b.1961). While Zachary’s many research focuses on the musical portrayals of personal identities within works for the stage, he holds many other research interests including form and rhythm & meter studies as they relates to both popular music and musical theater.