Application Deadline: 11:59pm ET, 18 February 2025

OVERVIEW:

Through funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and the generous contributions of many individual donors, the Publications Committee of the American Musicological Society makes available funds to help with expenses involved in the publication of works of musical scholarship, including books, essay collections, articles, chapters in essay collections, special issues of journals, and works in non-print media. Subventions are granted for any topic of musicological research. 

For additional information about the AMS subvention program, please visit the AMS website.

ELIGIBILITY

Subventions are awarded only for work written by members of the AMS. Applications for any amount up to $2500 will receive consideration. No individual can receive a subvention more than once in a three-year period. Applications that are not complete will not be considered.

Individual authors or editors, or their sponsoring organization, society, or department, may apply for assistance to defray costs not normally covered by publishers. Examples include costs related to illustrations, musical examples, facsimiles, accompanying audio or video examples, permissions, and in exceptional cases copy-editing. Subventions are not given to defray costs associated with indexing or translations. Author subventions required by publishers are not eligible for reimbursement.

Proposals from scholars at all stages of their careers are welcome. Projects that make use of newer technologies are also encouraged.

 In addition to the standard subvention funds, works by early career professionals may also be eligible for funding from the AMS 75 PAYS subvention fund, which provides support for the publication of first books by professionals in the early stages of their musicology research or teaching career. Click here for complete eligibility criteria and information on eligibility appeals regarding the AMS 75 PAYS subvention fund.

APPLICATION PROCEDURES

The following materials are required:

1. A short written abstract (1,000 words maximum) that describes the project and its contribution to musical scholarship.
2. A copy of the article or full and complete book draft. Please identify the date of the manuscript you submit. If submitting an application for a non-print project, submit the equivalent or consult the AMS office for guidance.
3. A copy of a contract or letter of agreement that demonstrates final acceptance for publication and includes the clauses that stipulate the author's assumption of the expenses for which the subvention is requested.
4. A budget (itemized list of expenses) for which the subvention would be applied.
5. (Optional): copies of invoices or receipts to support the proposed budget.
6. Copies of the readers' reports and authors' responses (with names redacted). Include the dates the reports were written.

Application deadlines are mid-February and mid-August each year. 

NOTIFICATION AND USE OF FUNDS

Decisions will be announced no later than five months after each deadline. Recipients of subventions are requested to forward a copy of the final product (book, article, resource) upon publication. Awards must be claimed (with submission of receipts) within thirty-six months of the granting of the subvention. 

Important Notes:

1. Start your application early. You may save an incomplete form and continue later.
2. You MUST click the 'Submit' button at the end of the form to submit your application. Applications not submitted by the deadline cannot be considered.
3. Upon submission of your application form you will receive an email confirmation. You may also view your application by signing into your Submittable account and clicking "My Submissions".
4. If you have any questions about your application, please contact the AMS office at ams@amsmusicology.org. For technical questions about Submittable, please visit submittable.com/contact.

Application Deadline: 11:59pm ET, 18 February 2025

Application Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 18 February 2025

OVERVIEW:

Through funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and the generous contributions of many individual donors, the Publications Committee of the American Musicological Society makes available funds to help with expenses involved in the publication of works of musical scholarship, including books, essay collections, articles, chapters in essay collections, special issues of journals, and works in non-print media. Subventions are granted for any topic of musicological research.

For additional information about the AMS subvention program, please visit the AMS website.

ELIGIBILITY

Subventions are awarded only for work written by current members of the AMS. Applications for any amount up to $2500 will receive consideration. Applications that are not complete will not be considered. Publisher subventions are intended to reduce the retail price of the book or resource and make it more accessible to readers.

In addition to the standard subvention funds, works by early career professionals may also be eligible for funding from the AMS 75 PAYS subvention fund, which provides support for the publication of first books by professionals in the early stages of their musicology research or teaching career. Click here for complete eligibility criteria and information on eligibility appeals (to be submitted by the author) regarding the AMS 75 PAYS subvention fund.

APPLICATION PROCEDURES

To apply for a Publisher's subvention, the following materials are required:

1. The entire manuscript, including its date
2. Copies of the readers’ reports and authors’ responses (including dates; names should be redacted)
3. A detailed financial statement, indicating: 1) a breakdown of the costs of publication, including details such as projected print run, licensing expenses, and other expenses associated with the project; 2) the amount requested from the AMS as a subvention; 3) the impact the subvention will have on the retail price of the book or resource.

Subvention application deadlines are mid-February and mid-August each year.

NOTIFICATION AND USE OF FUNDS

Decisions will be announced no later than five months after the application deadline. Recipients of subventions are requested to forward a copy of the final product (book, article, resource) upon publication. All awards must be claimed (with submission of receipts) within thirty-six months of the granting of the subvention.

Important Notes:

1. Start your application early. You may save an incomplete form and continue later.
2. You MUST click the 'Submit' button at the end of the form to submit your application. Applications not submitted by the deadline cannot be considered.
3. Upon submission of your application form you will receive an email confirmation. You may also view your application by signing into your Submittable account and clicking "My Submissions".
4. If you have any questions about your application, please contact the AMS office at ams@amsmusicology.org. For technical questions about Submittable, please visit submittable.com/contact.

Application Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 18 February 2025

Application Deadline: 11:59pm ET, 3 February 2025

Call for Proposals

As part of the Society's new AMS Explore initiative, the AMS Education Committee invites proposals from current or recent undergraduates for 10-minute paper presentations to be delivered during the 2025 AMS-SMT Joint Annual Meeting held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, 6-9 November at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. AMS Explore is aimed at facilitating the involvement of current and recently-graduated undergraduate students in the AMS Annual Meeting. Accepted participants will present their research as part of a symposium consisting of papers given by other members of the AMS Explore cohort. Papers will take the form of 10-minute presentations, followed by a panel discussion and general Q&A. In addition to presenting, participants in the AMS Explore program will be required to participate in cohort activities with peers and members of the AMS Education Committee that better prepare them for conference presentation and help them get as much as possible out of their conference experience.  

The AMS Explore program is an excellent way for undergraduates and early-career scholars to be introduced to the AMS community, receive constructive feedback on their work, and enjoy a welcoming conference experience. Accepted participants will receive complimentary registration and a $350 grant to defray the cost of travel. Free lodging (with a roommate) in the conference hotel will also be provided. 

Proposals must be received no later than 11:59 p.m. EST, 3 February 2025. Exceptions cannot be made to this deadline, so please plan accordingly. Notifications of decisions will be sent in early June.

Eligibility:

Application is open to individuals who are either currently enrolled in an undergraduate institution or who have graduated within the last three (3) years, but who are not yet enrolled in a graduate program at the time of application. Only students/graduates of universities in the U.S. or Canada are eligible to apply. International students are eligible, so long as they are students or recent graduates of a U.S. or Canadian institution.

Application Procedures:

To apply for AMS Explore, the following materials are required:

1. A personal statement (maximum 550 words).
2. A paper proposal abstract (maximum 350 words).

Notification:

Applicants will receive a decision notification in early June.

Important Notes:

1. Start your application early. You may save an incomplete form and continue later.
2. You MUST click the 'Submit' button at the end of the form to submit your application. Applications not submitted by the deadline cannot be considered.
3. Upon submission of your application form you will receive an email confirmation. You may also view your application by signing into your Submittable account and clicking "My Submissions".
4. If you have any questions about your application, please contact the AMS office at ams@amsmusicology.org. For technical questions about Submittable, please visit submittable.com/contact.

Application Deadline: 11:59pm ET, 3 February 2025

Nomination Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 15 April 2025

Overview and Eligibility:

The Lewis Lockwood Award honors each year a musicological book of exceptional merit published during the previous year (2024) in any language and in any country by an early-career scholar who is a member of the AMS or a citizen or permanent resident of Canada or the United States. “Early-career” is here defined as no more than twelve years beyond completion of the PhD degree. If you are an author who is more than twelve years beyond the PhD, a confidential eligibility appeal* can be submitted, please see below for additional details.

The award committee, consisting of five scholars, will accept nominations from any individual and will choose a single winner from among all the candidates. The winner receives a monetary prize and a certificate, as well as recognition at the Annual Meeting of the Society. An individual may receive the award only once, but winning the Lockwood Award will not preclude an author from also winning the Otto Kinkeldey Award at a later stage of their career. A book may receive only one AMS award.

Anyone may submit a nomination. Nominations, including self-nominations, must be submitted by 15 April 2025.

*Eligibility Appeals: If you are an author whose career trajectory does not technically fit the stated eligibility criteria for "early career professional," you may request that your book be considered if you can otherwise show that you are still in the early stages of your musicology research or teaching career. Such requests are kept confidential and if approved, will authorize you to nominate your work for the Lockwood Award. Eligibility appeals are generally granted to those whose publication does not fall within the twelve-year post terminal degree window because of delays caused by career switching, ill health, pregnancy or other personal circumstances.

If you wish to make an eligibility appeal, please email your request and rationale to ams@amsmusicology.org at least six weeks prior to the award nomination deadline. Your email should specifically state the eligibility criteria that you do NOT meet and which you would like waived, and why. Decisions on eligibility appeals will be provided within one month of the submission of the appeal. If your eligibility is approved, you will be authorized to submit a nomination for the Lockwood Award. Your nominated work will still have to undergo the usual committee review process and meet all other applicable requirements.

Nominations and Review Copies:

• Eligible nominations will be posted to the List of Nominations. This list will be updated periodically throughout the nomination period.
• If available, please provide a digital (PDF) review copy of the nominated work. An upload field is provided on the nomination form. There is no file size limit. If the digital review copy includes a watermark, we kindly request that it be applied in a fashion that isn't too obtrusive for the reviewers, such as in the margins where it doesn’t cover the text, or in a light opacity.
• For any nomination that does not include a digital review copy, the AMS will contact the publisher to request the review copy.
• If you wish to nominate a work for more than one AMS award (provided it meets eligibility requirements), please submit the corresponding nomination form for each award the work is to be nominated.

Important Notes:

1. You MUST click the 'Submit' button at the end of the form to submit your nomination. Nominations not submitted by the deadline cannot be considered.
2. Upon submission of your nomination form you will receive an email confirmation. You may also view your nomination by signing into your Submittable account and clicking "My Submissions".
3. If you have any questions about your nomination, please contact the AMS office at ams@amsmusicology.org. For technical questions about Submittable, please visit submittable.com/contact.
4. Publishers and Colleagues: the form will ask you to send a reference request (Author Eligibility Request) so that the author may verify eligibility for the nomination. The form will ask you to input the author's email address.

Nomination Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 15 April 2025

Nomination Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 15 April 2025

Overview and Eligibility:

The Philip Brett Award, sponsored by the LGBTQ Study Group of the American Musicological Society, is named in honor of Philip Brett (1937–2002), one of the founding members of the study group. Each year it honors exceptional musicological work in the field of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender/transsexual studies completed during the previous two calendar years (for work completed in 2023 or 2024), in any country and in any language. By “work” is meant a published article, book, edition, annotated translation, a paper read at a conference, teaching materials (course descriptions and syllabi), and other scholarly work accepted by the award committee that best exemplifies the highest qualities of originality, interpretation, theory, and communication in this field of study. By "completion" is meant the publication in the case of articles, books, editions, etc.; and delivery at a conference or the like in the case of a paper.

The award consists of a monetary prize and certificate. The recipient will receive recognition at the annual meeting of the Society and the annual meeting of the LGBTQ Study Group. The committee will entertain nominations from any individual, including self-nominations. Individuals may receive the award on more than one occasion.

Nominations, including self-nominations, must be submitted by 15 April 2025. 

Important Notes:

1. You MUST click the 'Submit' button at the end of the form to submit your nomination. Nominations not submitted by the deadline cannot be considered.
2. Upon submission of your nomination form you will receive an email confirmation. You may also view your nomination by signing into your Submittable account and clicking "My Submissions".
3. If you have any questions about your nomination, please contact the AMS office at ams@amsmusicology.org. For technical questions about Submittable, please visit submittable.com/contact.

Nomination Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 15 April 2025

Nomination Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 15 April 2025

Overview and Eligibility:

The Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award honors each year outstanding musicological work in the field of critical race and/or critical ethnic studies. By "work" is meant a published article, book, edition, or other scholarly entity that best exemplifies the highest qualities of originality, interpretation, theory, and communication in this area. Work published during the preceding three calendar years (2022 to 2024) in any language and in any country by a scholar who is a member of the AMS or a citizen or permanent resident of Canada or the United States is eligible for the award.

The award committee, consisting of five scholars, will choose a single winner from among the candidates. The winner receives a monetary prize and a certificate, as well as recognition at the Annual Meeting of the Society. An individual may receive the Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award only once. A book, monograph, edition, or article may receive only one AMS award.

Anyone may submit a nomination. Nominations, including self-nominations, must be submitted by 15 April 2025.

Nominations and Review Copies: 

• Eligible nominations will be posted to the List of Nominations. This list will be updated periodically throughout the nomination period.
• If available, please provide a digital (PDF) review copy of the nominated work. An upload field is provided on the nomination form. There is no file size limit. If the digital review copy includes a watermark, we kindly request that it be applied in a fashion that isn't too obtrusive for the reviewers, such as in the margins where it doesn’t cover the text, or in a light opacity.
• For any nomination that does not include a digital review copy, the AMS will contact the publisher to request the review copy.
• If you wish to nominate a work for more than one AMS award (provided it meets eligibility requirements), please submit the corresponding nomination form for each award the work is to be nominated.

Important Notes:

1. You MUST click the 'Submit' button at the end of the form to submit your nomination. Nominations not submitted by the deadline cannot be considered.
2. Upon submission of your nomination form you will receive an email confirmation. You may also view your nomination by signing into your Submittable account and clicking "My Submissions".
3. If you have any questions about your nomination, please contact the AMS office at ams@amsmusicology.org. For technical questions about Submittable, please visit submittable.com/contact.
4. Publishers and Colleagues: the form will ask you to send a reference request (Author Eligibility Request) so that the author may verify eligibility for the nomination. The form will ask you to input the author's email address.

Nomination Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 15 April 2025

Nomination Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 15 April 2025

Overview and Eligibility:

The Music in American Culture Award honors each year a book of exceptional merit that both illuminates some important aspect of the music of the United States and places that music in a rich cultural context. The goal of this award is to recognize the best writing on music in American culture, regardless of the source or intended audience of that writing; hence work by a broad range of authors—including performing musicians, journalists, and music critics, as well as academic scholars—will be considered. Books published in the previous year (2024) in any language and in any country are eligible. “Previous year” refers to the copyright year as found on the copyright page of the book. The author must be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States or Canada.

Nominations, including self-nominations, may be submitted by any individual within or outside the AMS. The winner receives a monetary prize and a certificate, as well as recognition at the Annual Meeting of the Society. An individual may receive the Music in American Culture Award only once. A book may receive only one AMS award.

Anyone may submit a nomination. Nominations, including self-nominations, must be submitted by 15 April 2025.

Nominations and Review Copies:

• Eligible nominations will be posted to the List of Nominations. This list will be updated periodically throughout the nomination period.
• If available, please provide a digital (PDF) review copy of the nominated work. An upload field is provided on the nomination form. There is no file size limit. If the digital review copy includes a watermark, we kindly request that it be applied in a fashion that isn't too obtrusive for the reviewers, such as in the margins where it doesn’t cover the text, or in a light opacity.
• For any nomination that does not include a digital review copy, the AMS will contact the publisher to request the review copy.
• If you wish to nominate a work for more than one AMS award (provided it meets eligibility requirements), please submit the corresponding nomination form for each award the work is to be nominated.

Important Notes:

1. You MUST click the 'Submit' button at the end of the form to submit your nomination. Nominations not submitted by the deadline cannot be considered.
2. Upon submission of your nomination form you will receive an email confirmation. You may also view your nomination by signing into your Submittable account and clicking "My Submissions".
3. If you have any questions about your nomination, please contact the AMS office at ams@amsmusicology.org. For technical questions about Submittable, please visit submittable.com/contact.
4. Publishers and Colleagues: the form will ask you to send a reference request (Author Eligibility Request) so that the author may verify eligibility for the nomination. The form will ask you to input the author's email address.

Nomination Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 15 April 2025

Nomination Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 15 April 2025

Overview and Eligibility:

The Otto Kinkeldey Award will honor each year a musicological book of exceptional merit published during the previous year (2024) in any language and in any country by a scholar who is past the early stages of their career and who is a member of the AMS or a citizen or permanent resident of Canada or the United States. “Early-stages" is here defined as no more than twelve years beyond completion of the PhD degree. “Previous year” refers to the copyright year as found on the copyright page of the book.

An individual may receive the Kinkeldey Award only once. A book may receive only one AMS award.

The committee, consisting of five scholars, will choose a single winner from among all the candidates. The winner receives a monetary prize and a certificate, as well as recognition at the Annual Meeting of the Society.

Anyone may submit a nomination. Nominations, including self-nominations, must be submitted by 15 April 2025.
 

Nominations and Review Copies:

• Eligible nominations will be posted to the List of Nominations. This list will be updated periodically throughout the nomination period.
• If available, please provide a digital (PDF) review copy of the nominated work. An upload field is provided on the nomination form. There is no file size limit. If the digital review copy includes a watermark, we kindly request that it be applied in a fashion that isn't too obtrusive for the reviewers, such as in the margins where it doesn’t cover the text, or in a light opacity.
• For any nomination that does not include a digital review copy, the AMS will contact the publisher to request the review copy.
• If you wish to nominate a work for more than one AMS award (provided it meets eligibility requirements), please submit the corresponding nomination form for each award the work is to be nominated.

Important Notes:

1. You MUST click the 'Submit' button at the end of the form to submit your nomination. Nominations not submitted by the deadline cannot be considered.
2. Upon submission of your nomination form you will receive an email confirmation. You may also view your nomination by signing into your Submittable account and clicking "My Submissions".
3. If you have any questions about your nomination, please contact the AMS office at ams@amsmusicology.org. For technical questions about Submittable, please visit submittable.com/contact.
4. Publishers and Colleagues: the form will ask you to send a reference request (Author Eligibility Request) so that the author may verify eligibility for the nomination. The form will ask you to input the author's email address.

Nomination Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 15 April 2025

Nomination Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 1 April 2025

Overview and Eligibility:

The Roland Jackson Award recognizes an article in the English language of exceptional merit in the field of music analysis by a scholar who is a member of the AMS or a citizen or permanent resident of Canada or the United States.

The award will be made according to three separate subject categories, in successive years, as follows:

• music from circa 1800 to the present
• music circa 1600 to 1800
• music before 1600

In the current year of the award (2025), articles on music from circa 1800 to the present published in 2022, 2023, and 2024 are eligible. (To inaugurate the award in 2016, articles on music from 1800 to the present that were published in 2014 and 2015 were eligible. In the second year of the award (2017), articles on music from 1600 to 1800 published in 2014, 2015, and 2016 were eligible. In the third year of the award (2018), articles on music before 1600 published in 2015, 2016, and 2017 were eligible.)

The award will be made in each subject category once every three years and articles published during the previous three years will be eligible.

The committee, consisting of five scholars, chooses a single winner from among all the candidates. The winner receives a monetary prize and a certificate, as well as recognition at the Annual Meeting of the Society. An individual may receive the Jackson Award only once. An article may receive only one AMS award. 

Anyone may submit a nomination. Nominations, including self-nominations, must be submitted by 1 April 2025.
 

Nominations and Review Copies:

• Eligible nominations will be posted to the List of Nominations. This list will be updated periodically throughout the nomination period.
• If available, please provide a digital (PDF) review copy of the nominated work. An upload field is provided on the nomination form. There is no file size limit. If the digital review copy includes a watermark, we kindly request that it be applied in a fashion that isn't too obtrusive for the reviewers, such as in the margins where it doesn’t cover the text, or in a light opacity.
• For any nomination that does not include a digital review copy, the AMS will contact the publisher to request the review copy.
• If you wish to nominate a work for more than one AMS award (provided it meets eligibility requirements), please submit the corresponding nomination form for each award the work is to be nominated.

Important Notes:

1. You MUST click the 'Submit' button at the end of the form to submit your nomination. Nominations not submitted by the deadline cannot be considered.
2. Upon submission of your nomination form you will receive an email confirmation. You may also view your nomination by signing into your Submittable account and clicking "My Submissions".
3. If you have any questions about your nomination, please contact the AMS office at ams@amsmusicology.org. For technical questions about Submittable, please visit submittable.com/contact.
4. Publishers and Colleagues: the form will ask you to send a reference request (Author Eligibility Request) so that the author may verify eligibility for the nomination. The form will ask you to input the author's email address.

Nomination Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 1 April 2025

Nomination Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 15 April 2025

Overview and Eligibility:

The Ruth A. Solie Award honors each year a collection of musicological essays of exceptional merit published during the previous year (2024) in any language and in any country and edited by a scholar or scholars, at least one of whom is a member of the AMS or citizen or permanent resident of Canada or the United States. “Previous year” refers to the copyright year as found on the copyright page of the collection. Both books and collections that form themed journal issues or volumes are eligible. Established to honor the editor of Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship (University of California Press, 1995), a field-defining and field-changing book, the award acknowledges the value of the individual authors’ contributions to the collection while recognizing the central role of the editor(s) in conceiving and shaping the whole.

The award committee, consisting of five scholars, will choose a single winner from among all the candidates. The winning editor(s) will receive a monetary prize and a certificate, as well as recognition at the Annual Meeting of the Society. An individual may receive the Solie Award only once. A book/collection may receive only one AMS award.
Anyone may submit a nomination. Nominations, including self-nominations, must be submitted by 15 April 2025.

Nominations and Review Copies:

• Eligible nominations will be posted to the List of Nominations. This list will be updated periodically throughout the nomination period.
• If available, please provide a digital (PDF) review copy of the nominated work. An upload field is provided on the nomination form. There is no file size limit. If the digital review copy includes a watermark, we kindly request that it be applied in a fashion that isn't too obtrusive for the reviewers, such as in the margins where it doesn’t cover the text, or in a light opacity.
• For any nomination that does not include a digital review copy, the AMS will contact the publisher to request the review copy.
• If you wish to nominate a work for more than one AMS award (provided it meets eligibility requirements), please submit the corresponding nomination form for each award the work is to be nominated.

Important Notes:

1. You MUST click the 'Submit' button at the end of the form to submit your nomination. Nominations not submitted by the deadline cannot be considered.
2. Upon submission of your nomination form you will receive an email confirmation. You may also view your nomination by signing into your Submittable account and clicking "My Submissions".
3. If you have any questions about your nomination, please contact the AMS office at ams@amsmusicology.org. For technical questions about Submittable, please visit submittable.com/contact.
4. Publishers and Colleagues: the form will ask you to send a reference request (Author Eligibility Request) so that the author may verify eligibility for the nomination. The form will ask you to input the author's email address.

Nomination Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 15 April 2025

Nomination Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 15 April 2025

Overview and Eligibility:

The H. Colin Slim Award honors each year a musicological article of exceptional merit, published during the previous year (2024) in any language and in any country by a scholar who is past the early stages of their career and who is a member of the AMS or a citizen or permanent resident of Canada or the United States. “Early-stages" is here defined as no more than twelve years beyond completion of the PhD degree.

The award committee, consisting of five scholars, will choose a single winner from among all the candidates. The winner receives a monetary prize and a certificate, as well as recognition at the Annual Meeting of the Society. An individual may receive the Slim Award only once. An article may receive only one AMS award.

Anyone may submit a nomination. Nominations, including self-nominations, must be submitted by 15 April 2025. 

Nominations and Review Copies:

• Eligible nominations will be posted to the List of Nominations. This list will be updated periodically throughout the nomination period.
• If available, please provide a digital (PDF) review copy of the nominated work. An upload field is provided on the nomination form. There is no file size limit. If the digital review copy includes a watermark, we kindly request that it be applied in a fashion that isn't too obtrusive for the reviewers, such as in the margins where it doesn’t cover the text, or in a light opacity.
• For any nomination that does not include a digital review copy, the AMS will contact the publisher to request the review copy.
• If you wish to nominate a work for more than one AMS award (provided it meets eligibility requirements), please submit the corresponding nomination form for each award the work is to be nominated.

Important Notes:

1. You MUST click the 'Submit' button at the end of the form to submit your nomination. Nominations not submitted by the deadline cannot be considered.
2. Upon submission of your nomination form you will receive an email confirmation. You may also view your nomination by signing into your Submittable account and clicking "My Submissions".
3. If you have any questions about your nomination, please contact the AMS office at ams@amsmusicology.org. For technical questions about Submittable, please visit submittable.com/contact.
4. Publishers and Colleagues: the form will ask you to send a reference request (Author Eligibility Request) so that the author may verify eligibility for the nomination. The form will ask you to input the author's email address.

Nomination Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 15 April 2025

Nomination Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 15 April 2025

Overview and Eligibility:

The Early Music Award will honor each year a substantial, single-author work of scholarship on music before 1550. Nominations may be accepted for publications in a variety of formats: articles, books, and scholarly editions with significant editorial commentaries are all eligible for consideration. Work published during the preceding three calendar years (2022-2024) in any language and in any country by a scholar who is a member of the AMS or a citizen or permanent resident of Canada or the United States is eligible for the award. An individual may receive the Early Music Award only once. A work of scholarship may receive only one AMS award.

The committee, consisting of three scholars, will accept nominations from any individual and will choose a single winner from among all the candidates. The winner receives a monetary prize and a certificate, as well as recognition at the Annual Meeting of the Society. 

Anyone may submit a nomination. Nominations, including self-nominations, must be submitted by 15 April 2025.

Nominations and Review Copies:

• Eligible nominations will be posted to the List of Nominations. This list will be updated periodically throughout the nomination period.
• If available, please provide a digital (PDF) review copy of the nominated work. An upload field is provided on the nomination form. There is no file size limit.
• For any nomination that does not include a digital review copy, the AMS will contact the publisher to request the review copy.
• If you wish to nominate a work for more than one AMS award (provided it meets eligibility requirements), please submit the corresponding nomination form for each award the work is to be nominated.

Important Notes:

1. You MUST click the 'Submit' button at the end of the form to submit your nomination. Nominations not submitted by the deadline cannot be considered.
2. Upon submission of your nomination form you will receive an email confirmation. You may also view your nomination by signing into your Submittable account and clicking "My Submissions".
3. If you have any questions about your nomination, please contact the AMS office at ams@amsmusicology.org. For technical questions about Submittable, please visit submittable.com/contact.
4. Publishers and Colleagues: the form will ask you to send a reference request (Author Eligibility Request) so that the author may verify eligibility for the nomination. The form will ask you to input the author's email address.

Nomination Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 15 April 2025

Nomination Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 15 April 2025

Overview and Eligibility:

The Alfred Einstein Award will honor each year a musicological article of exceptional merit, published during the previous year (2024) in any language and in any country by an early-career scholar who is a member of the AMS or a citizen or permanent resident of Canada or the United States. “Early-career" is here defined as no more than twelve years beyond completion of the PhD degree. If you are an author who is more than twelve years beyond the PhD, a confidential eligibility appeal* can be submitted, please see below for additional details.

The committee, consisting of five scholars, will will choose a single winner from among all the candidates. The winner receives a monetary prize and a certificate, as well as recognition at the Annual Meeting of the Society. An individual may receive the award only once, but winning the Einstein Award will not preclude winning the H. Colin Slim Award at a later stage of the career. An article may receive an AMS award only once.

Anyone may submit a nomination. Nominations, including self-nominations, must be submitted by 15 April 2025.

*Eligibility Appeals: If you are an author whose career trajectory does not technically fit the stated eligibility criteria for "early career professional," you may request that your article be considered if you can otherwise show that you are still in the early stages of your musicology research or teaching career. Such requests are kept confidential and if approved, will authorize you to nominate your work for the Einstein Award. Eligibility appeals are generally granted to those whose publication does not fall within the twelve-year post terminal degree window because of delays caused by career switching, ill health, pregnancy or other personal circumstances.

If you wish to make an eligibility appeal, please email your request and rationale to ams@amsmusicology.org at least six weeks prior to the award nomination deadline. Your email should specifically state the eligibility criteria that you do NOT meet and which you would like waived, and why. Decisions on eligibility appeals will be provided within one month of the submission of the appeal. If your eligibility is approved, you will be authorized to submit a nomination for the Einstein Award. Your nominated work will still have to undergo the usual committee review process and meet all other applicable requirements.

Nominations and Review Copies:

• Eligible nominations will be posted to the List of Nominations. This list will be updated periodically throughout the nomination period.
• If available, please provide a digital (PDF) review copy of the nominated work. An upload field is provided on the nomination form. There is no file size limit. If the digital review copy includes a watermark, we kindly request that it be applied in a fashion that isn't too obtrusive for the reviewers, such as in the margins where it doesn’t cover the text, or in a light opacity.
• For any nomination that does not include a digital review copy, the AMS will contact the publisher to request the review copy.
• If you wish to nominate a work for more than one AMS award (provided it meets eligibility requirements), please submit the corresponding nomination form for each award the work is to be nominated.

Important Notes:

1. You MUST click the 'Submit' button at the end of the form to submit your nomination. Nominations not submitted by the deadline cannot be considered.
2. Upon submission of your nomination form you will receive an email confirmation. You may also view your nomination by signing into your Submittable account and clicking "My Submissions".
3. If you have any questions about your nomination, please contact the AMS office at ams@amsmusicology.org. For technical questions about Submittable, please visit submittable.com/contact.
4. Publishers and Colleagues: the form will ask you to send a reference request (Author Eligibility Request) so that the author may verify eligibility for the nomination. The form will ask you to input the author's email address.

Nomination Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 15 April 2025

Nomination Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 15 April 2025

Overview and Eligibility:

The H. Robert Cohen Award honors each year a publication related to the goals of RIPM (Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals), a long-standing enterprise internationally recognized as one of the primary tools for research in music and musicology. The award will honor a work of scholarship of exceptional merit based upon eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century periodical literature related to music. Works eligible for this award include, but are not limited to, books, articles, or widely-disseminated databases focusing on one or more journals, music critics and criticism, reception history, critical and cultural histories (e.g. of nationalism, genres, race, gender, class), and issues of access and preservation.

Work published during the preceding three calendar years (2021 to 2023) in any language and in any country by a scholar who is a member of the AMS or a citizen or permanent resident of Canada or the United States is eligible for the award. An individual may receive the H. Robert Cohen / RIPM Award only once. A work of scholarship may receive only one AMS award.

The award committee, consisting of three scholars, will choose a single winner from among all the candidates. The winner receives a monetary prize and a certificate, as well as recognition at the Annual Meeting of the Society.

Anyone may submit a nomination. Nominations, including self-nominations, must be submitted by 15 April 2025.

Nominations and Review Copies: 

• Eligible nominations will be posted to the List of Nominations. This list will be updated periodically throughout the nomination period.
• If available, please provide a digital (PDF) review copy of the nominated work. An upload field is provided on the nomination form. There is no file size limit. If the digital review copy includes a watermark, we kindly request that it be applied in a fashion that isn't too obtrusive for the reviewers, such as in the margins where it doesn’t cover the text, or in a light opacity.
• For any nomination that does not include a digital review copy, the AMS will contact the publisher to request the review copy.
• If you wish to nominate a work for more than one AMS award (provided it meets eligibility requirements), please submit the corresponding nomination form for each award the work is to be nominated.

Important Notes:

1. You MUST click the 'Submit' button at the end of the form to submit your nomination. Nominations not submitted by the deadline cannot be considered.
2. Upon submission of your nomination form you will receive an email confirmation. You may also view your nomination by signing into your Submittable account and clicking "My Submissions".
3. If you have any questions about your nomination, please contact the AMS office at ams@amsmusicology.org. For technical questions about Submittable, please visit submittable.com/contact.
4. Publishers and Colleagues: the form will ask you to send a reference request (Author Eligibility Request) so that the author may verify eligibility for the nomination. The form will ask you to input the author's email address.

Nomination Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 15 April 2025

Nomination Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 15 April 2025

Overview and Eligibility:

The Robert M. Stevenson Award recognizes outstanding scholarship in Iberian and Latin American music. The designation “Iberian music” refers to music composed, performed, created, collected, belonging to, or descended from the musical cultures of Spain and Portugal. “Latin American music” refers to music composed, created, collected, or descended from the musical cultures of all the countries in South America, Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. The award will be given annually to a book, monograph, edition, or journal article by a member of the AMS. The publication must be written in English and must have been published during the preceding three calendar years (2022 to 2024).

The winner will be selected by a committee of three scholars. The winner receives a monetary prize and a certificate, as well as recognition at the Annual Meeting of the Society. An individual may receive the Stevenson Award only once. A book may receive only one AMS award in a given year.

Anyone may submit a nomination. Nominations, including self-nominations, must be submitted by 15 April 2025.

Nominations and Review Copies:

• Eligible nominations will be posted to the List of Nominations. This list will be updated periodically throughout the nomination period.
• If available, please provide a digital (PDF) review copy of the nominated work. An upload field is provided on the nomination form. There is no file size limit. If the digital review copy includes a watermark, we kindly request that it be applied in a fashion that isn't too obtrusive for the reviewers, such as in the margins where it doesn’t cover the text, or in a light opacity.
• For any nomination that does not include a digital review copy, the AMS will contact the publisher to request the review copy.
• If you wish to nominate a work for more than one AMS award (provided it meets eligibility requirements), please submit the corresponding nomination form for each award the work is to be nominated.

Important Notes:

1. You MUST click the 'Submit' button at the end of the form to submit your nomination. Nominations not submitted by the deadline cannot be considered.
2. Upon submission of your nomination form you will receive an email confirmation. You may also view your nomination by signing into your Submittable account and clicking "My Submissions".
3. If you have any questions about your nomination, please contact the AMS office at ams@amsmusicology.org. For technical questions about Submittable, please visit submittable.com/contact.
4. Publishers and Colleagues: the form will ask you to send a reference request (Author Eligibility Request) so that the author may verify eligibility for the nomination. The form will ask you to input the author's email address.

Nomination Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 15 April 2025

Nomination Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 1 April 2025

Overview and Eligibility:

The AMS Teaching Award will honor an exceptional pedagogical resource for musicology by an AMS member or a citizen or permanent resident of Canada or the United States published during the previous two years (2023 or 2024). Publication year may refer to the copyright year as found on the copyright page of the book or journal; online and non-traditional sources must make clear the year of publication. By “resource” is meant a published article, book (including textbook), digital medium, online material, other scholarly endeavor, or non-traditional source (e.g. white paper, curriculum, blog, etc.). This resource should best exemplify the highest qualities of originality, theory, application, and communication for teaching and pedagogy in any of the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship.

The committee, consisting of three scholars, will choose a single winner from among all of the candidates. The winner receives a monetary prize and a certificate, as well as recognition at the Annual Meeting of the Society. An individual may receive the Teaching Award only once. A work of scholarship may receive only one AMS award.

Anyone may submit a nomination. Nominations, including self-nominations, must be submitted by 15 April 2025. Additionally, the award committee may solicit the curriculum vitae of each nominee.

Nominations and Review Copies:

• Eligible nominations will be posted to the List of Nominations. This list will be updated periodically throughout the nomination period.
• If available, please provide a digital (PDF) review copy of the nominated work. An upload field is provided on the nomination form. There is no file size limit. If the digital review copy includes a watermark, we kindly request that it be applied in a fashion that isn't too obtrusive for the reviewers, such as in the margins where it doesn’t cover the text, or in a light opacity.
• For any nomination that does not include a digital review copy, the AMS will contact the publisher to request the review copy.
• If you wish to nominate a work for more than one AMS award (provided it meets eligibility requirements), please submit the corresponding nomination form for each award the work is to be nominated.

Important Notes:

1. You MUST click the 'Submit' button at the end of the form to submit your nomination. Nominations not submitted by the deadline cannot be considered.
2. Upon submission of your nomination form you will receive an email confirmation. You may also view your nomination by signing into your Submittable account and clicking "My Submissions".
3. If you have any questions about your nomination, please contact the AMS office at ams@amsmusicology.org. For technical questions about Submittable, please visit submittable.com/contact.
4. Publishers and Colleagues: the form will ask you to send a reference request (Author Eligibility Request) so that the author may verify eligibility for the nomination. The form will ask you to input the author's email address.

Nomination Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 1 April 2025

Deadline: 11:59pm CST, 17 February 2025

Call for Proposals

The AMS Performance Committee invites proposals for concerts, lecture-recitals, workshops, and other types of performances during the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society held jointly with the Society for Music Theory in Minneapolis, Minnesota, 6–9 November at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis. We encourage proposals that develop a point of view, offer a programmatic focus, explore new musicological findings, or relate to the rich musical traditions of Minneapolis and the surrounding region. Proposals that engage with the Society’s diversity of interests and methodological approaches (including proposals that expand on the concept of “performance” itself) are especially welcome. Sessions will be 90 minutes in length.

Freelance artists as well as performers and ensembles affiliated with colleges, universities, or conservatories are encouraged to submit proposals. 

Materials must be received no later than 11:59 p.m. CST, 17 February 2024. Exceptions cannot be made to this deadline, so please plan accordingly. Notifications of the Performance Committee’s decisions will be sent in late May.

Application Deadline: 11:59pm ET, 21 January 2025

Overview

The Early Music Program Fund (EMPF) was established in late 2020 to support educational or field-building programming for researchers studying music in the period before c. 1600.

The Early Music Program Fund's educational programs build, strengthen, and sustain the research skills needed to knowledgably study, teach, perform, and illuminate music and musical cultures in the period before c. 1600. This includes, but is not limited to, programming focused on paleography, codicology, organology, the archival sciences, the study of musical notation and lexicology, languages and liturgy, and the scribal and material cultures that informed and conditioned the creation, evolution, and dissemination of early music. EMPF field-building programming focuses on strengthening and extending the scholarly and professional networks that support scholars and teachers who work on early music up to c. 1600.

Eligibility

Only AMS-affiliated chapters, study groups, and committees are eligible to submit a proposal for funding from the Early Music Program Fund. Individuals wishing to apply should contact an AMS chapter, study group, or committee and invite them to sponsor the proposal. AMS chapters, study groups, and committees are limited to a maximum of two proposals per annual grant cycle. To be considered, proposals must either be submitted by a duly elected or appointed leader of the relevant chapter, study group, or committee, or be received along with a letter from such a leader authorizing the proposal submission on behalf of that chapter, study group or committee. Proposals in excess of $2000 will not be considered, and the AMS reserves the right to award less than the requested amount. All funds must be used within the two fiscal years following receipt of the grant.

Notification and Use of Funds

Applicants will receive a decision notification in mid-March. All funds awarded will be transferred into the sponsoring AMS group's account and payments/reimbursements can be claimed using the Payment Request Form. Funds awarded must be used by 30 June 2026. Recipients will be required to complete a grant report detailing use of funds and providing data on impact.

Important Notes:

1. Start your application early. You may save an incomplete form and continue later.
2. You MUST click the 'Submit' button at the end of the form to submit your application. Applications not submitted by the deadline cannot be considered.
3. Upon submission of your application form you will receive an email confirmation. You may also view your application by signing into your Submittable account and clicking "My Submissions."
4. If you have any questions about your application, please contact the AMS office at ams@amsmusicology.org. For technical questions about Submittable, please visit submittable.com/contact.

Application Deadline: 11:59pm ET, 21 January 2025

Application Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 3 March 2025 

Overview:

The Suzanne G. Cusick Professional Development Fund provides $500 professional development and career support grants for scholars of music, sound studies, and musical performance. The grants are intended to support low-income independent scholars, contingent faculty, and individuals whose paid work outside the academy does not offer them access to professional development. In all programs supported by this fund, special efforts will be made to ensure equitable participation by members of historically under-represented groups.

Eligibility:

To be eligible for this grant you must:

1. have been active in the AMS within the last five years (e.g., by presenting papers, working on committees, contributing to AMS publications, or being an AMS member);
2. have an annual income that falls within the lowest two tiers of the Society’s income-based membership dues scale (less than $45,000 per year).

Recipients will be chosen by lottery. To support diversity, the lottery may be weighted to ensure adequate representation of historically under-represented groups.

Notification and Use of Funds:

If chosen, you will receive an award notification in early April. Funds awarded must be used between 1 May 2025 and 30 April 2026.

Important Notes:

1. Start your application early. You may save an incomplete form and continue later.
2. You MUST click the 'Submit' button at the end of the form to submit your application. Applications not submitted by the deadline cannot be considered.
3. Upon submission of your application form you will receive an email confirmation. You may also view your application by signing into your Submittable account and clicking "My Submissions".
4. If you have any questions about your application, please contact the AMS office at ams@amsmusicology.org. For technical questions about Submittable, please visit submittable.com/contact.

Application Deadline: 11:59pm EDT, 3 March 2025

Nomination Deadline: 11:59pm EST, 31 January 2025

The Claude V. Palisca Award honors each year a scholarly edition or translation in the field of musicology published during the previous year (2024) in any language and in any country by a scholar who is a member of the AMS or a citizen or permanent resident of Canada or the United States, deemed by a committee of scholars to best exemplify the highest qualities of originality, interpretation, logic and clarity of thought, and communication. “Previous year” refers to the copyright year as found on the copyright page of the book. Three categories of musicological works are eligible for the Palisca award: translations into English of musicologically significant texts; editions of music; or editions of musicologically significant texts.

The award committee, consisting of five scholars, will accept nominations from any individual and will choose a single winner from among all the candidates. The winner receives a monetary prize and a certificate, as well as recognition at the Annual Meeting of the Society. A work of scholarship may receive only one AMS award. An individual may receive the award only once.

Nominations, including self-nominations, of works published in 2024 may be submitted by 31 January 2025. Additionally, the award committee may solicit the curriculum vitae of each nominee.

Nominations and Review Copies:

• Eligible nominations will be posted to the List of Nominations on or about 15 February 2025.
• If available, please provide a digital (PDF) review copy of the nominated work. An upload field is provided on the nomination form. There is no file size limit. If the digital review copy includes a watermark, we kindly request that it be applied in a fashion that isn't too obtrusive for the reviewers, such as in the margins where it doesn’t cover the text, or in a light opacity.
• For any nomination that does not include a digital review copy, the AMS will contact the publisher to request the review copy.

Important Notes:

1. You MUST click the 'Submit' button at the end of the form to submit your nomination. Nominations not submitted by the deadline cannot be considered.
2. Upon submission of your nomination form you will receive an email confirmation. You may also view your nomination by signing into your Submittable account and clicking "My Submissions".
3. If you have any questions about your nomination, please contact the AMS office at ams@amsmusicology.org. For technical questions about Submittable, please visit submittable.com/contact.
4. Publishers: the form will ask you to send a reference request (Author Eligibility Request) so that the author may verify eligibility for the nomination. The form will ask you to input the author's email address.

Nomination Deadline: 11:59pm EST, 31 January 2025

Application Deadline: 11:59pm EST, 3 February 2025

ELIGIBILITY

There are 3 fellowships offered by the AMS:

Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowship:

The Society makes available three funded AMS 50 dissertation-year fellowships each year. Any student registered in good standing for a doctorate at a North American* university who has completed all formal degree requirements except the dissertation at the time of full application is eligible to apply. The fellowships are not intended for support of the early stages of research: it is expected that a Fellow's dissertation will be completed within the fellowship year.

Any submission for a doctoral degree in which the emphasis is on musical scholarship will be eligible.

Holmes/D'Accone Dissertation Fellowship in Opera Studies:

The Holmes/D’Accone Fellowship for dissertation research recognizes academic achievement and future promise in the study of opera. Any full-time graduate student registered in good standing for a doctorate at a North American* university who has had a dissertation proposal in the subfield of opera studies approved at the time of the application is eligible to apply, regardless of the stage of dissertation work.

Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship:

The Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship was established by friends of the late Howard Mayer Brown on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. Intended to increase the presence of minority scholars and teachers in musicology, the fellowship supports one year of graduate work for a student at a U.S. or Canadian university who is a member of a historically underrepresented group, including, in the U.S., African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans, and, in Canada, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities (as defined by Canadian legislation). Preference will normally be given to candidates who are citizens or permanent residents of a North American* country. The award will not be made to those who already have full funding roughly equivalent to the amount of the Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship, regardless of whether it includes a teaching assignment, except on a non-stipendiary basis.

Students are eligible who have completed at least one year of full-time graduate work, intend to pursue a Ph.D., and are in good standing at their home institution. They should show evidence of academic excellence and promise of continuing achievement in music scholarship. Students in any stage of the degree are welcome to apply, but those in the earlier stages are particularly encouraged to apply. Students at a U.S. or Canadian university who are a member of a historically underrepresented group, including, in the U.S., African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans, and, in Canada, aboriginal peoples and visible minorities (as defined by Canadian legislation) are encouraged to apply. There are no restrictions as to research area, age, or sex.

*includes all 23 countries in the North American continent

COMPETITION AND APPLICATION PROCEDURES

Please note: AMS Fellowships now use a common application. If you are eligible for and wish to apply for more than one AMS fellowship, you may do so by completing a single common application. You must indicate on the form for which fellowship(s) you are applying.

To apply for the Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowship and/or the Holmes/D'Accone Fellowship, the following materials are required:

1. A brief (1,000 character) dissertation project description.
2. A current dissertation proposal of 2,000-4,000 words, double-spaced, in 12-point font. The proposal should include a detailed rationale of the project (supported by, but not limited to, an assessment of relevant secondary literature) and an overview of each chapter. It should be a sourced document with footnotes, endnotes, and/or bibliography. Word count does not include footnotes, endnotes, or bibliography. This document should include the name of your project, but omit personally identifying information, such as your name and institution.
3. A timeline (1-2 pages) for completion of the dissertation, including information about progress to date. The timeline should indicate all milestones (completion of exams, proposal approval, etc.) that are relevant for your program/institution. This document should include the name of your project, but omit personally identifying information, such as your name and institution.
4. A sample chapter or excerpt (preferably not an introductory chapter reviewing the literature). This chapter or excerpt should be one that clearly represents or bolsters your overall thesis, and should not exceed 60 double-spaced pages in length. This document should include the name of your project, but omit personally identifying information, such as your name and institution.
5. You must also arrange for a letter from the registrar or departmental Director of Graduate Studies, attesting to ABD (all-but-dissertation) status. This must be requested using the reference request feature included in the application form, so have your attestor's name and email handy when filling in the form. You may send this letter request at any time, even before you are ready to submit the application.

Note: Letters of recommendation, a curriculum vitae, and a bibliography are not required for the AMS 50 or Holmes/D'Accone Fellowships.

To apply for the Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship, the following materials are required:

1. A personal statement (not to exceed 1,000 words) summarizing the applicant's musical and academic background and stating why they wish to pursue an advanced degree in music studies. Areas of research or specific topics that the applicant would pursue in the 2024–2025 academic year if supported by a Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship should be identified and discussed.
2. A curriculum vitae.
3. A sample or samples of the applicant’s work (not to exceed 30 pages total), such as term paper(s), thesis chapter(s), or any published material. Writing samples should be clearly labeled as to their date and the purpose for or context in which they were originally written.
4. One letter of support from a faculty member. The letter should address the applicant's general intellectual and musical ability and how these might contribute to a successful career in scholarship and teaching. The letter of support must be requested using the reference request feature included in the application form, so have your reference name and email handy when filling in the form. You may send this request at any time, even before you are ready to submit the application.
    

IMPORTANT NOTES:

1. For AMS 50 and Holmes/D'Accone Fellowships, Applicants must submit items 1-4, above, in an anonymous form, i.e., without name or evidence of institutional affiliation in any document (including text, headers, footers, footnotes, and document properties). Please be particularly careful not to name university-based sources of funding or other institutional information in the prospectus and timeline.
2. Start your application process early. You may save an incomplete form and continue later.  
3. You MUST click the 'Submit' button at the end of the form to submit your application. Applications not submitted by the deadline cannot be considered.
4. Upon submission of your application form you will receive an email confirmation. You may also check the status of your application by signing into your Submittable account and clicking "My Submissions". 
5. If you have any questions about your application, please contact the AMS office at ams@amsmusicology.org. For technical questions about Submittable, please visit submittable.com/contact.

AWARDS

All AMS fellows receive a twelve-month stipend, currently set at $25,000. AHJ AMS 50 Fellowships and Holmes/D'Accone Fellowships are awarded solely on the basis of academic merit, and AMS 50 and Holmes/D'Accone fellows are expected to focus on completing their dissertations and not to undertake more than twenty (20) hours each week of paid or unpaid employment during the fellowship term. 

Recipients of any of all of these fellowships may elect to accept the award on a non-stipendiary basis (thus freeing scarce resources for others). Fellowships are intended for full-time study. An equivalent major award from another source may not be held concurrently or consecutively unless the AMS award is accepted without a stipend. Fellowships are not deferable or renewable. There are no provisions for the payment of tuition: it is hoped that graduate schools will provide tuition fellowships or waivers.

Fellows are selected in the spring and announced in the summer.

Application Deadline: 11:59pm EST, 3 February 2025