AMS Travel and Research Grants Common Application
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Application Deadline: 11:59 p.m. EDT, 1 April 2026
Overview
Applications for the eight AMS travel and research grants listed below are reviewed by a single committee. Since the terms for these grants have overlapping areas of emphasis, applicants may request, where appropriate, to be considered for more than one. This common application allows you to request consideration for multiple grants. However, applicants should carefully review each grant program's eligibility criteria and area(s) of emphasis before applying for that grant. Indiscriminate application is strongly discouraged and may lead to disqualification. No individual may receive a travel/research grant more than once in a three-year period.
Grants and Areas of Emphasis
Elliott Antokoletz Fund: for research based on music-centered approaches to creativity in twentieth-century music (composition, improvisation, performance)
M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet Fund: for research in France
Virginia & George Bozarth Fund: for research in Austria
H. Robert Cohen/RIPM Fund: for research based on the musical press; related to the goals of RIPM
Jan LaRue Travel Fund: for research in Europe
Harold Powers World Travel Fund: for research throughout the world; global-oriented and disciplinarily open
Ora Frishberg Saloman Fund: for research oriented to music criticism and reception history
Eugene K. Wolf Travel Fund: for dissertation research in Europe
Eligibility
Six of the eight travel and research grants have the same eligibility requirements (although they may have different areas of emphasis). The Cohen/RIPM grant and the Wolf grant have unique eligibility requirements.
Antokoletz, Bartlet, Bozarth, LaRue, Powers, and Saloman eligibility:
These awards are to be given annually to one or more doctoral students at or PhD graduates of North American universities to conduct doctoral or post-doctoral musicological research matching the area of emphasis specified by the individual grant. If applicants seek to conduct research for their dissertation, they must have completed all other requirements for the PhD. If they seek to conduct post-doctoral research, they should have completed the PhD within the past five years. Preference will be given to applicants whose home institutions do not offer financial support for musicological research.
Cohen/RIPM eligibility:
All members of the AMS are eligible to apply. The fund supports studies based in large part upon eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century periodical literature dealing with music, including those focusing on one or more journals, music critics and criticism, reception history and issues related to access and preservation.
Wolf eligiblity:
The award is to be given annually to one or more doctoral students at North American universities to conduct dissertation-related research anywhere in Europe. Applicants must have completed all requirements for the PhD except the dissertation. Preference will be given to applicants whose home institutions do not offer financial support for musicological research.
Notification and Use of Funds
Applicants will receive a decision notification in mid-May.
The average award amount between all grants typically ranges from $500 to $2,500. Applicants may request up to $5,000. Funds awarded in 2026 must be applied to travel/research undertaken between 1 May 2026 and 30 April 2027.
Application Procedures
To apply for any of these grants using this common application, you will be required to provide:
- A brief summary of your proposal (150 words)
- A description of the overall project explaining the basic ideas, problems, or questions to be explored (500 words)
- A statement regarding the significance of the overall project and the anticipated contribution of the project to the existing body of research and writing on the topic or question (250 words)
- A description of the expected results of research done during the grant period, and plans for further research on the project (200 words)
- A more detailed plan of work (500 words)
- A project budget (use this budget template)
- If working with foreign language materials, your level of fluency
- One letter of support to be submitted by a scholar familiar with your work
Note: The letter of recommendation 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 the reference request at any time, even before you are ready to submit the application.
Important Notes
- Start your application process early. You may save an incomplete form and continue later.
- 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.
- 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".
- 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: 11:59 p.m. EDT, 1 April 2026