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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 2026 AMS Annual Meeting.
Erin Fuzer
Ohio State University
Areas of Interest: Women’s music clubs in the United States, women’s patronage of music, and American Chaminade clubs
Benjamin Lawson
University of California, Santa Barbara
Areas of Interest: Pit orchestras, theater musicians, American vaudeville, variety entertainment, popular song, ca. 1890-1930
Joao Martins
Occidental College
Areas of Interest: American jazz history, Afro-diasporic music, Americana
Kwame Ocran
University of Pennsylvania
Areas of Interest: American popular music, popular music criticism, cassette culture and media, Black female vocality, popular music history
Nicholaus Poelwijjk
New York University
Areas of Interest: American neoclassicism post WWII
Mingyeong Son
Asian Music Research Institute
Areas of Interest: 20th-century contemporary music history and aesthetics, postcolonial and Cold War East Asian music studies; Korean diaspora woman in music; operas of North and South Korea, global K-pop, digital technology, sound studies
Sora Woo
University of California, San Diego
Areas of Interest: Popular music, Asian American studies, 20th-century US history
Brandon Young-Eleazar
Urbana Sixth Grade Center
Areas of Interest: Black American music, Asian American music, protest music
