2025 Travel & Research Grant Awardees
The American Musicological Society is pleased to announce the recipients of the Society’s 2025 travel and research grants. We congratulate the recipients and wish them the best in their research.
Tekla Babyak
Janet Levy Fund
Project Title: Guest lectures for Dr. Heeseung Lee’s graduate seminar “Late Romanticism to 1945,” University of Northern Colorado

Leah Batstone
Janet Levy Fund
Project Title: Tradition and Revolution: Musical Modernism in Ukraine

Simeon W. Brown
Jan LaRue Travel Fund, Harold Powers World Travel Fund, and Eugene K. Wolf Fund
Project Title: Councils, Contracts, and Chants: The development of Orthodox chant by the protopapas and protopsaltis from 1450 to 1550 in Venetian Crete

Julian Duncan
Ora Frishberg Saloman Fund
Project Title: Local and Global History in Puerto Rico’s Military and Municipal Bands 1898–1945

Elaine Fitz Gibbon
Harold Powers World Travel Fund
Project Title: Inventing Theater, Making Community: Instrumental Theater and the Birth of a Genre

Allison Jerzak
Elliott Antokoletz Fund
Project Title: The Musicality of Digital Data: A Theory and Material History of Digital Music and Music Recommendation, 1957-2014

Kathleen McGowan
H. Robert Cohen / RIPM Fund, Jan LaRue Travel Fund, and Eugene K. Wolf Fund
Project Title: Musical Life as a “Girton Girl”: Women Musicking at Girton College, Cambridge in the Early Twentieth Century

Flannery McIntyre
Eugene K. Wolf Fund
Project Title: An History of Music and Intellectual Culture, 300 – 900 A.D.

Briana Nave
H. Robert Cohen / RIPM Fund
Project Title: Anatomy of a Musician: The Medicalization of Musical Ability in the Modernizing United States (1890-1941)

Vanessa Romao
Eugene K. Wolf Fund
Project Title: Authorship, Gender Politics, and Extended Vocal Techniques in Musical Modernism
