Ruth A. Solie Award

The Ruth A. Solie Award honors each year a collection of musicological essays of exceptional merit edited by a scholar or scholars. Both books and collections that form themed journal issues or volumes are eligible.

Established to honor Ruth A. Solie, the editor of Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship (University of California Press, 1995), a field-defining and field-changing book, the award acknowledges the value of the individual authors’ contributions to the collection while recognizing the central role of the editor(s) in conceiving and shaping the whole.

To be eligible for the Ruth A. Solie Award, submissions must meet the following criteria. Eligible works:

• Must be edited by at least one scholar who is a member of the AMS or a citizen/permanent resident of Canada or the United States.
• Must have been published during the previous calendar year (referring to the copyright year as found in the front matter of the published work)
• May be published in any language and in any country.

Nominations must be received via the AMS Award Nomination by 11:59PM ET on the submission deadline. Self-nominations are welcome, as well as nominations from colleagues and publishers.

The award committee, consisting of five scholars, will choose a single winner from among all the candidates. The winning editor(s) receive a monetary prize and a certificate, as well as recognition at the Annual Meeting of the Society. An individual may receive the Solie Award only once. A book/collection may receive only one AMS award.