AMS Receives Grant for Summer Institute
NEH Funds Summer Institute for Higher Ed Faculty
The American Musicological Society (AMS) is pleased to announce that it has received a grant of $174,889 from the National Endowment for the Humanities’ (NEH) Institute for Higher Education Faculty program. The program supports professional development programs that convene higher education faculty from across the nation to deepen their understanding of significant topics in the humanities and enrich their capacity for effective scholarship and teaching.
The AMS will use this NEH grant to host a two-week residential Institute for Higher Education Faculty entitled Musics of the United States: Telling Our Stories, to be held at the University of Maryland, 14-26 July 2025. This institute will apply insights from innovative humanistic scholarship to explore how the stories we tell about American music are changing, and how we might further refine and share them.
Musics of the United States: Telling Our Stories will introduce thirty (30) participants to recent research on many facets of American music, and invite them to think deeply about how higher education faculty teach the complex and interwoven stories of American musical cultures and communities. Each participant will receive a stipend of $2200 to support attendance and travel, as well as access to reduced-rate dorm accommodations for the duration.
The institute will consist primarily of practitioner workshops and visits to cultural institutions and centers of music research and teaching in Washington, D.C. Participants will grapple with the challenges of curricular development and learn how other knowledge professionals, like museum curators, are presenting these new, more broadly representative narratives to the public.
Musics of the United States: Telling Our Stories will be directed by Tammy Kernodle (Institute Director) and Danielle Fosler-Lussier (Institute Co-Director). This institute will feature workshops and seminars facilitated by Matthew D. Morrison, Katie Graber, Deborah Wong, Louis Kaiser Epstein, Kristen Myers Turner, and Marcus Pyle.
More information on the institute, including application deadlines and eligibility requirements, will become available later this fall. Stay tuned!