Join 
Donate The AMS Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointment of Jennifer Walker, Assistant Professor of Musicology at West Virginia University, to the position of Associate Editor of JAMS. Dr. Walker began her service as Associate Editor on 1 March 2025 and will succeed Jake Johnson as Editor-in-chief on 1 January 2027.
A scholar of French music during the late nineteenth century, Dr. Walker’s research reevaluates music’s role in the intersections of music, politics, and religion in late nineteenth-century France. Dr. Walker’s book Sacred Sounds, Secular Spaces: Transformations of Catholicism in the Music of Third Republic Paris (AMS Studies in Music/ Oxford University Press, 2021) was the 2022 winner of the American Musicological Society’s H. Robert Cohen/RIPM Award for an outstanding scholarly work on the musical press. She is the author of numerous other articles and book chapters, including a forthcoming book chapter on Gabriel Faure and Republican musical aesthetics in the volume Gabriel Fauré: Influences and Influence (ed. James Sobaskie, forthcoming, Boydell and Brewer), the article “Church, State, and an Operatic Outlaw: Jules Massenet’s Hérodiade” (Cambridge Opera Journal, 2019) and “Les grands oratorios à l’église Saint-Eustache” (Journal of Music Criticism, 2019). She is currently preparing a monograph on Hector Berlioz’s Requiem and is the co-editor with Mark Everist of the volume Gender, Sexuality, and Eroticism on the Lyric Stage (forthcoming, Brepols).
The position of Associate Editor was created by the Board of Directors to provide assistance to the JAMS Editor-in-Chief in the management of day-to-day operations and to provide a period of apprenticeship for the incoming Editor-in-Chief, to ensure optimal continuity in the Journal‘s editorial practice.
