Dr. Saylor is Associate Professor of Music History at Drake. He received a bachelor's degree in Violin Performance from Drake University, an M.A. in Musicology from Arizona State University, and a Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of Michigan.

Dr. Saylor's area of specialization is British art music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing particularly on the life and works of Ralph Vaughan Williams and Frederick Delius. He has presented papers at national meetings of the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, and the North American British Music Studies Association, as well as for the International Conference on Music Since 1900 (University of York), the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference (Durham University), and the International Congress on Musical Signification (Université de Paris). He has had reviews and articles published in the journals Nineteenth-Century Music Review, Musik-Konzepte, The Musical Quarterly, and in the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, and is currently co-editing and contributing to a collection of essays on the representation of blackness in opera, to be published by the University of Illinois Press. He also served for a period as editorial assistant to Hugh Cobbe on Letters of Ralph Vaughan Williams 1895-1958, recently published by Oxford University Press.

Dr. Saylor has also received several grants and awards, including the the 2004 Outstanding Teacher of the Year award from Drake's College of Arts and Sciences. His other areas of interest include symphonic and string literature, minimalism, shape-note hymnody, and relationships between music and politics, and he currently serves as Secretary for the North American British Music Studies Association.