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2022 Awardees & Honorees

We are pleased to announce the American Musicological Society's 2022 awardees and honorees. Congratulations! 

Honorary & Corresponding Members

Corresponding Member

Philippe Canguilhem

Philippe Canguilhem

Honorary Member

Lawrence Earp

Lawrence Earp 

Honorary Member

Annegret Fauser

Annegret Fauser

Corresponding Member

Marina Frolova-Walker

Learn more about this year's honorees. 

Award & Prize Winners

Alfred Einstein Award

Lester Hu

Zhuqing (Lester) S. Hu

"Chinese Ears, Delicate or Dull? Toward a Decolonial Comparativism," Journal of the American Musicological Society (2021) 74:3.

AMS Teaching Award

Travis Stimeling & Kayla Tokar

"Narratives of Musical Resil-ience and the Perpetuation of Whiteness in the Music History Classroom," JMHP (2020) 10:1. 

Claude V. Palisca Award

Norm Cohen, Carson Cohen, & Anne Dhu McLucas

An American Singing Heritage: Songs from the British-Irish-American Oral Tradition as Recorded in the Early Twentieth Century (A-R Editions / MUSA, 2021).

Early Music Award

Dwight Reynolds

Dwight F. Reynolds

The Musical Heritage of al-Andalus (Routledge, 2020).

H. Colin Slim Award

Peter Loewen

Peter V. Loewen

"A Rudder for The Ship of Fools?: Bosch's Franciscans as Jongleurs of God," Speculum (2021) 96:4. 

H. Robert Cohen / RIPM

Jennifer Walker

Jennifer Walker

Sacred Sounds, Secular Spa-ces: Transforming Catholicism Through the Music of Third-Republic Paris (Oxford Univer-sity Press, 2021). 

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Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award

Kira Thurman

Kira Thurman 

Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms  (Cornell University Press, 2021).

Lewis Lockwood Award 

Braxton Shelley

Healing for the Soul: Richard Smallwood, the Vamp, and the Gospel Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2021).

Music in American Culture Award

Daphne A. Brooks

Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound (Belkap Press/Harvard University Press, 2021).

Noah Greenberg Award

Cesar Favila & Paul Feller

Project Title: Convent Music from New Spain

Otto Kinkeldey Award 

Peter J. Schmelz

Sonic Overload: Alfred Schnittke, Valentin Silvestrov, and Polystylism in the Late USSR (Oxford University Press, 2021).

Paul A. Pisk Prize

Sophie Brady

Presentation: "From the Living Room to the Concert Hall: Francis Bebey's Experimental Collaborations."


Philip Brett Award

Elliot Powell

Elliott H. Powell

Sounds from the Other Side: Afro-South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music 

(University of Minnesota Press, 2020). 

Robert M. Stevenson Award 

Alejandro Vera (auth.); Julianne Graper (trans.)

The Sweet Penance of Music: Musical Life in Colonial Santiago de Chile (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Roland Jackson Award

Truman See

Truman See

"Hear My Desire: Rachmani-nov's Orphic Voice and Musi-cology's Trouble with Eurydice" 19th-Century Music (2021) 44:3.

Ruth A. Solie Award

Emily I. Dolan & Alexander Rehding (eds.)

The Oxford Handbook of Timbre (Oxford University Press, 2021). 


Honorable Mention

H. Robert Cohen / RIPM Award 

Kwami Coleman

Kwami Coleman

"Free Jazz and the 'New Thing': Aesthetics, Identity, and Texture, 1960-1966," Journal of Musicology (2021) 38:3.

Learn more about this year's awardees.

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