Lewis Lockwood Award
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Nomination Deadline: 11:59 p.m. EDT, 15 April 2026
Overview and Eligibility:
The Lewis Lockwood Award honors each year a musicological book of exceptional merit published by an early-career scholar.
Books published during the previous year (2025) by a scholar who is in 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 are eligible for the award. Eligible works must be in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish. "Previous year" refers to the copyright year as found in the front matter of the published work. "Early stages" is defined as no more than twelve years beyond completion of the PhD degree.*
A committee of three scholars will choose a single award recipient from all eligible candidates. Award winners will receive a monetary prize, a certificate, and 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 2026.
*Eligibility Appeals: If you are an author whose career trajectory does not technically fit the stated eligibility criteria for "early career," you may request that your article be considered if you can otherwise show that you are still in the early stages of your music research or teaching career. For more information on how to submit an eligibility appeal, please review the "Frequently Asked Questions" for the Lockwood Award on the AMS website.
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:
- 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.
- 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."
- 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.
- 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: 11:59 p.m. EDT, 15 April 2026