American Musicological Society - Eileen Southern Travel Fund

11/09/2021

Attending the upcoming 2021 AMS virtual meeting? Join us on Thursday, November 11 from 12-1:50 pm (Chicago time) for the Committee on Cultural Diversity's sponsored panel, Current Work By Eileen Southern Fellows. This panel celebrates previous recipients of the Eileen Southern Travel Grant (ESTG). The CCD seeks to showcase the research of these scholars, particularly in the emerging and junior career phases, demonstrating the depth and breadth of scholarship undertaken by this diverse cohort. This year's panel includes three papers: "Einstein on the Beach and the Nuclear Event," Anna Gatdula; "Across the Pacific: Performing "Asian" in Western Classical Music," Shelley Zhang; and "Music Notes, Planter History: Beckford, Burney, and the Orphic Silence of Eighteenth-Century Musicology," Devon Borowski. Erika Honisch will serve as respondent.

With these three papers, the CCD launches its new mission of developing a long-term mentoring pipeline that fosters the scholarship and careers of ESTG fellows as a concrete way to cultivate diversity within the AMS and support emerging scholars.

06/15/2021

Reminder! Applications for the 2021 Eileen Southern Travel Grants are due July 1!

Because the AMS conference is online this year, 2021 awardees will receive registration to attend this year and a travel award to attend in 2022.

Beginning with the 1995 Annual Meeting in New York City, the Society and the Committee on Cultural Diversity (CCD) have hosted minority students at each annual conference to expose them to various aspects of the field. These elements might include introductions to representatives of graduate progra....

05/11/2021

New on Musicology Now: “Race and the American Musicological Society: Founding the Committee
on Cultural Diversity,” an article from Carol Oja (founding co-chair of the
AMS Committee on Cultural Diversity) documenting the history of equity
activism in the AMS.

An online platform for sounds, words, and ideas from the American Musicological Society

04/30/2021

The AMS Committee on Cultural Diversity is delighted to welcome applications for the 2021 cycle of the Eileen Southern Travel Fund (deadline July 1).

Celebrating the legacy of Eileen Southern, a pioneering scholar of Black music, the fund covers the cost of traveling to and attending the annual AMS conference for promising students (undergraduate, terminal master's) from underrepresented backgrounds who are considering further study in musicology. Several awards are given each year.

Because the 2021 annual meeting will be held online, this year’s fellows will have their cost of registration covered and travel to the 2022 conference funded.

For further info, and to access the application, visit: https://americanmusicologicalsociety.submittable.com/submit/b6b019af-1c1e-4dd1-ae24-84b2981636bd/eileen-southern-travel-fund

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Beginning with the 1995 Annual Meeting in New York City, the Society and the Committee on Cultural Diversity (CCD) have hosted minority students at each annual conference to expose them to various aspects of the field. These elements might include introductions to representatives of graduate progra....

06/24/2019

A reminder that the deadline for the 2019 cycle of the Eileen Southern Travel Fund is June 30.

Beginning with the 1995 Annual Meeting in New York City, the Society and the Committee on Cultural Diversity have hosted minority students at each annual conference to expose them to various aspects of the field. These elements might include introductions to representatives of graduate programs in m...

06/06/2019

The AMS Committee on Cultural Diversity is delighted to welcome applications for the 2019 cycle of the Eileen Southern Travel Fund (deadline June 30).

Celebrating the legacy of Eileen Southern, a pioneering scholar of black music, the fund covers the cost of traveling to and attending the annual AMS conference for promising students (undergraduate, terminal master's) from under-represented backgrounds, who are considering further study in musicology. Several awards are given each year.

For further info, and to access the application, visit:
https://www.amsmusicology.org/page/ccdtfbackground

Please share widely!

Beginning with the 1995 Annual Meeting in New York City, the Society and the Committee on Cultural Diversity have hosted minority students at each annual conference to expose them to various aspects of the field. These elements might include introductions to representatives of graduate programs in m...

11/08/2018

Congratulations to this year's Eileen Southern Travel Fund recipients: Luis Pabon-Rico, N'Dia Rogers, Nami Murata, Mia Watts, and Grant Knox. It was such a pleasure to get to know you, to learn about your research interests, and to welcome you to our community. We hope to see you all at a future conference!

09/10/2018

Registration is now open for Project Spectrum's pre-conference "Diversifying Music Academia: Strengthening the Pipeline" (October 31 – November 1, 2018), held ahead of the AMS Annual Meeting in San Antonio (Nov 1-4).

https://projectspectrummusic.com/

"Diversifying Music Academia: Strengthening the Pipeline is a symposium devoted to the issue of diversity in music theory, musicology, and ethnomusicology. Led by Project Spectrum, a coalition of graduate students and faculty members, this event seeks to explore why many people marginalized by their race/ethnicity, gender, and/or sexuality continue to have difficulty in finishing graduate degrees, attaining gainful employment, and receiving tenure within all fields of music studies. Furthermore, the aim of this symposium is to develop concrete tools to inspire systematic change within these fields."

Diversifying Music Academia: Strengthening the Pipeline

05/17/2018

Apply if you feel it applies!

Beginning with the 1995 Annual Meeting in New York City, the Society and the Committee on Cultural Diversity have hosted minority students at each annual conference to expose them to various aspects of the field. These elements might include introductions to representatives of graduate programs in m...

04/10/2018

The AMS Committee on Cultural Diversity is delighted to welcome applications for the 2018 cycle of the Eileen Southern Travel Fund (deadline June 1).

Celebrating the legacy of Eileen Southern, a pioneering scholar of black music, the fund covers the cost of traveling to and attending the annual AMS conference for promising students (undergraduate, terminal master's) from under-represented backgrounds, who are considering further study in musicology. Several awards are given each year.

For further info, and to access the application, visit http://www.ams-net.org/committees/ccd/ccdtf-background.php

Please share widely!

Beginning with the 1995 Annual Meeting in New York City, the Society and the Committee on Cultural Diversity have hosted minority students at each annual conference to expose them to various aspects of the field. These elements might include introductions to representatives of graduate programs in m...

11/14/2017

Warm congratulations to this year's recipients of grants from the Eileen Southern Travel Fund. We were so delighted to meet you, hear about your research interests, and welcome you to the annual conference.

The nine recipients' names and affiliations were omitted from the presentation slide because of a clerical error, for which we sincerely apologize.

11/01/2017

We're very happy to pass on the following information to students attending AMS who are interested in meeting with representatives from graduate programs in musicology around the country—highly recommended!

Reception for Prospective Grad Students at AMS, Friday 11/10 5-6:30pm; 40 programs represented! More info at the link.

Reception for Prospective Graduate Students Prospective graduate students are warmly invited to attend the Reception for Prospective Graduate Students, Friday, Nov. 10, 5:00-6:30pm (H: Grand Ballroom E). The reception allows prospective students the opportunity to meet faculty representatives from g...