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Donate Congratulations to this year’s recipients of a Career Development Grant in American Music! The purpose of the grants are to support participation in annual meeting programming that deepens grantees’ knowledge of American music and strengthens their professional networks. Grant recipients will participate in relevant activities at the upcoming AMS-SMT Joint Annual Meeting in Minneapolis as part of a cohort of twelve.
Audrey Amsellem
Columbia University
Areas of Interest: Music and the law.
Katie Ball
CUNY Graduate Center
Areas of Interest: Minstrelsy, popular music and gendered violence, the sounds of American nationalism and conservatism
Colin Brown
Texas A&M International University
Areas of Interest: Early 20th-century popular music, post colonialism and indigenous peoples of America, postmodern criticism, theatre organ performance practice, silent film music
Joseph Campbell
Nezperce Schools
Areas of Interest: Connecting K–12 performance teaching to American music history and popular music
Chase Castle
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Areas of Interest: American religious music, music and race, popular music, blackface minstrelsy, material history
Randall Cornelison
University High School
Areas of Interest: The overlap of American classical, jazz, and modern music, the evolution of musical styles and cultural narratives in the United States
Grant Cottier
Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University
Areas of Interest: American music at the turn of 20th century, post-war Modernism, mathematics in music.
Cheng Hippocrates
SUNY Binghamton
Areas of Interest: Music of Hong Kong. Doming Lam, traditional and contemporary East Asian music, piano rolls and player piano in early jazz, braille music notation
Mi Kyung Hwang
Areas of Interest: Musicology, music theory, Korean music
Hannah Krall
Shaw University
Areas of Interest: The Creole of Color clarinet community in New Orleans and its connections to the music of Duke Ellington, intersectional and Black feminist methodologies
Nevena Stanic Kovacevic
Northwestern University
Areas of Interest: Minimalism, experimental music, music in a transatlantic context
Samantha Vivian
University of Kentucky
Areas of Interest: American Fife and Drum ensemble history and community preservation
