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Donate The American Musicological Society (AMS) is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2025–2026 academic year graduate research and dissertation fellowships. Each year the AMS awards fellowships as part of the following programs: the Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowship; The Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship; and the William F. Holmes / Frank D’Accone Dissertation Fellowship in Opera Studies. These fellowships support dissertation and predissertation research in musicology and related fields, and are a crucial part of the Society’s ongoing investment in the future of musicology. Congratulations to all our new fellows and many thanks to all who applied!
Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowship
Joshua David (University of Toronto)
Proposed Dissertation Title: Identity, Agency, and Performance Aesthetics: A Study of Opera and the Operatic Voice in Lagos, Nigeria (2000 – 2023).
ken tianyuan Ge (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Proposed Dissertation Title: Unmoored: Musical Labor and Affect in the Global Cruise Industry
Maura Sugg (Case Western Reserve University)
Proposed Dissertation Title: More Than Meets the Ear: Embodied Memory, Intertextuality, and Theology in Tomás Luis de Victoria’s Self-Borrowed Imitation Masses
Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship
Annie Kim (Brown University)
Christina Smiley (Washington University in St. Louis)
William F. Holmes / Frank D’Accone Dissertation Fellowship in Opera Studies
Ryan Gourley (University of California, Berkeley)
Proposed Dissertation Title: Sounding Russian Manchuria: Musical Circulation and Imperial Imagination
