Teaching Award
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Nomination Deadline: 11:59 p.m. EDT, 1 April 2026
Overview and Eligibility:
The AMS Teaching Award honors two exceptional pedagogical resources for music studies, including published articles, books (including textbooks), digital mediums, online materials, other scholarly endeavors, or non-traditional sources (e.g. white papers, curricula, blogs, etc.). These resources 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.
Works published during the preceding two calendar years (2024 and 2025) by a scholar who is a member of the AMS or a citizen or permanent resident of the United States or Canada are eligible for the award. Eligible works must be published in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish. "Preceding two calendar years" refers to the copyright year as found in the front matter of the published work. Online and nontraditional sources must make clear the year of publication.
A committee of four scholars will choose two award recipients 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 AMS 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 2026.
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