[AMS-announce] FWP: AMS Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship

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American Musicological Society

Call for Applications

Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship 2009

for a graduate student at a North American university who is a member of a group underrepresented in the discipline

Students are eligible to apply who have completed at least one year of graduate work, intend to pursue a Ph.D. degree, and are in good standing at their home institution. The Fellowship is not limited to dissertation work. Awards are based on merit, with no restrictions as to research area, age, or sex. Intended for full-time study, the Fellowship carries a non-renewable twelve-month stipend currently set at US$19,000 to which continuing support from the recipient's home institution may be added.

Applications include a personal statement that summarizes one’s musical and academic background, reasons for pursuing an advanced degree in musicology and research goals, along with a plan for the fellowship year. Also required are a curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation and recent samples of the applicant's work. See www.ams-net.org/ hmb.php for further details about eligibility and application.

On-line applications are due by 5 p.m. EST, 19 January 2009. The winner will be announced in the spring and the award conferred at the Annual Business Meeting of the AMS in Philadelphia in November 2009. Inquiries may be addressed to Prof. Margaret Murata <mkmurata at uci.edu>.

Howard Mayer Brown Fellows 

Ryan Bañagale (HMB Fellow 2008) is undertaking a Ph.D. thesis at Harvard University on the reception of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.

Valerie Dickerson (HMB Fellow 2007) is completing her Ph.D. dissertation for UCLA on musical culture in Cuban Protestant churches. She is currently a Thurgood Marshall Fellow at Dartmouth.

Charles Carson (HMB Fellow 2006) has an article forthcoming in the Black Music Research Journal. He is teaching in the Houston area while completing his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Pennsylvania.

Sin-Yan Hedy Law (HMB Fellow 2005; Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 2007) is a Collegiate Assistant Professor at The University of Chicago.

Christina Sunardi (HMB Fellow 2004; Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 2007) is an Assistant Professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Charles Hiroshi Garrett (HMB Fellow 2002; AHJ-AMS Fellow 2003; Ph.D. UCLA 2004) is an Assistant Professor of Music History at the University of Michigan.

Mark Burford (HMB Fellow 2001; Ph.D. Columbia University 2005) is an Assistant Professor at Reed College. 
Georgiary McElveen Bledsoe (HMB Fellow 1999; Ph.D. Duke University 2002) founded and is Executive Director of the Boston Urban Music Project (BUMP). 

Maya Gibson (HMB Fellow 1997; Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison 2008) is teaching at Carroll University in Wisconsin and turning her dissertation on Billie Holiday into a book.

Bernardo Illari (HMB Fellow 1995; AHJ-AMS 50 Fellow 1997; Ph.D. University of Chicago 2001), Associate Professor of Music, North Texas University, won the Samuel Claro Valdés prize in 2000 and the Casa de las Américas prize in 2003 for his work in Latin-American music.