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E-News | 29 May 2020 | Issue 1.5
AMS Announces Emergency Relief Grants for Members Hard Hit by COVID-19 Crisis
The Society's Board of Directors has committed to pursuing an ethical, creative, and generous response to the COVID-19 crisis. As part of this response, the Society is launching two new grant programs designed to provide one-time cash assistance to current and recent members of the American Musicological Society. Called AMS Emergency Income Support Grants and AMS Grants for Material Support , the new $500 grants will be available to students, gig workers, part-time/adjunct instructors, or those earning less than $30,000, who have been members of the AMS for at least one year in the past five years. The application will open on 5 June 2020 and close on 25 June 2020. Awardees will be determined by lottery and funds disbursed as soon as possible. Read full announcement...
2020 AMS Board Election Results
We are pleased to announce that Danielle Fosler-Lussier has been elected to serve as the next Vice President of the American Musicological Society, and that Sarah J. Eyerly , Jason Geary , and Laurie Stras have been elected to serve as Directors-at-Large. All will serve for two years, from November 2020 to November 2022. Congratulations to our new Board members and thanks to all the candidates for their willingness to stand for election and serve! Learn more about our new board members elect.
Executive Director's Note
Dear Colleagues,

In this issue of the e-newsletter, we are announcing two new grant programs designed to assist our many valued colleagues, students, and friends who have been hard hit by the COVID-19 crisis. It is, I think, the right thing to do. It reaffirms the shared values and interests that are the whole and entire purpose of the AMS community.

What these grants are not is charity. The Society is funding them with proceeds from a "rainy day fund" that has been built up over time by the generosity of countless members and donors. Thus, the grants are a vehicle through which AMS members help themselves and each other. They are part of the virtuous cycle of interdepence from which we have all benefited and to which we all owe a debt.

So, if you approve of these new programs and have the means, I urge you to show your support by joining / renewing your membership or donating to the AMS Annual Fund. Your gift or dues payment will help replenish the Society's resources and ensure that we have the flexibility to meet future crises.

Thank you and please keep safe!

Siovahn
Siovahn Walker, PhD, MPA
Executive Director (interim)
American Musicological Society
News & Updates
Call for AMS Committee Volunteers
The Committee on Committees is calling for volunteers to staff a wide range of AMS committees. Committee members are vital to health of the Society and do everything from awarding grants to organizing events and recommending new policies. If you are interested in volunteering to serve on an AMS committee in 2021, visit our How To Join A Committee page and submit your name for consideration. 
Call for AMS Board Nominations
The Board Nominating Committee is calling for nominations for candidates to serve as President or Director-at-Large on the AMS Board of Directors. Prior membership on the AMS Council is a prerequisite for service on the Board. N ominations are due 15 June 2020. To submit a nomination, please send name(s) and rationale(s) to committee chair Johann Buis ( [email protected]) . Learn more...
Call for Applications: Associate Editor JAMS
The AMS invites applications for the position of Associate Editor (AE) for the  Journal of the American Musicological Society  ( JAMS ) . The AE will assist the Editor-In-Chief (EIC), for a period of twenty-two months, beginning March 1, 2021, with an honorarium of $500 per issue and then succeed as EIC for a two-year term, 1 January 2023– 1 January 2025, with an honorarium of $1,500 per issue. Learn more...
Eileen Southern Travel Fund Applications due 30 June

Applications for support from the Eileen Southern Travel Fund are due 30 June 2020. Grants by the Eileen Southern Travel Fund, which are administered by the Committee on Cultural Diversity, help cover the travel expenses of promising minority students interested in attending the AMS Annual Meeting. Learn more...
Professional Development Travel Grant Applications due 1 July

Applications for Professional Develop ment Travel Grants are due 1 July 2020. These grants aid non-affiliated scholars and those without financial support for conference travel to attend the AMS Annual meeting. Grants of up to $500 (overseas applicants) and $350 (U.S./Canada applicants) are available to presenters and participants.  Learn more...
Conference Session and Paper Proposal Notices Sent

Decision letters for paper and session proposals submitted to the AMS Annual Meeting were sent out by email in early May. If you submitted a paper or session proposal and have not received a letter, please contact the AMS office ( [email protected] ). (NOTE: Decision letters for performance proposals are still pending and have not been sent out.)
Musicology Now on Hiatus

Musicology Now is on hiatus! No new articles will be added to the site for the next six months. Instead, Musicology Now will return in early 2021 with a website redesign and a new mission to share and broaden the work of the American Musicological Society with audiences of educators, musicians, and listeners internationally.
Awards & Honors ( view all )
Ingrid Monson
Ingrid Monson (Harvard University) has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music, she is the author of Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call Out to Jazz and Africa (2007).
Basil Considine
Basil Considine has been awarded a Fulbright Faculty Fellowship to Madagascar.
James Grier
James Grier has been named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for 2020. To learn more, see his  Fellow profile page . 
Philip Ewell
Philip Ewell, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at Hunter College in New York City, has been awarded the 2020 Susan McClary and Robert Walser Fellowship by the American Council of Learned Societies for his project, "Music Theory's White Racial Frame."
Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr.
Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. (University of Pennsylvania) has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A musicologist, pianist, composer, and the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music, he is the author of Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop .
Mark Kroll
Mark Kroll has been awarded the 2020 Howard Mayer Brown Award for lifetime achievement in the field of early music from Early Music America. Read the  full award details .
Nancy Yunhwa Rao
Nancy Yunhwa Rao has been awarded the NEH Research Fellowship for 2020– 21 for her project "Transpacific Operatic Imagination: Chinese Americans in Opera." See formal announcement .
In Memoriam ( view all )
We regret to report the death of longtime AMS member Nicholas Temperley on 8 April 2020. Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dr. Temperley passed away in his home in Urbana at the age of 87. His obituary is published  here . 
Father José López Calo, aged 98, passed away in his sleep on the morning of 10 May 2020 at the Jesuit residence of Salamanca. An honored member of the Sociedad Española de Musicología (SEdeM) and a corresponding member of the AMS, Father Calo was a noted musicologist and writer.
We regret to report that Howard E. Smither, James Gordon Hanes Professor of the Humanities in Music (emeritus) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and President of the AMS from 1980 to 1982, died on 1 February 2020 at age 94.
The AMS is committed to doing everything it can to support you, your students, and your colleagues during this time of crisis and challenge. But we can always use help. So if you can, please help us to maintain our funding programs without uninterruption during this difficult time by joining or donating to the AMS.
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