Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell

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Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell (born Kathleen Amy Kuzmick, September 21, 1941) is an American musicologist and organist. She was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and earned a BA from Wellesley College in 1963, an MA in music from the University of Illinois in 1969, and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980. Her doctoral research explored opera and ballet at the Regio Ducal Teatro of Milan between 1771 and 1776. Hansell worked as an organist and teacher in Illinois starting in 1967, and at Grinnell College in 1976. In 1982 she became an archivist at the Swedish Music History Archive in Stockholm, and in 1987 she edited Volume 14 of Franz Berwald’s complete works for Monumenta Musicae Svecicae. She later served as acquiring editor for music at the University of Chicago Press and was the managing editor of its Works of Giuseppe Verdi series. Her research includes pioneering work on the role of dance in 18th-century opera and she has produced critical editions of operas by Mozart, Rossini, and Verdi. She was formerly married to the musicologist Sven Hansell.