Eileen Southern Travel Fund Grant

The Eileen Southern Travel Fund offers travel grants for minority undergraduates and terminal master's candidates to attend the AMS Annual Meeting. Recipients receive travel, lodging, registration, and a one-year membership. The program emphasizes mentorship, connecting participants with graduate programs and professionals in musicology. Eligible applicants include Black, Asian, Hispanic, Native American, and Native Hawaiian students enrolled in U.S. or Canadian universities. The initiative fosters diversity and inclusion within the musicology field.

About the AMS
The American Musicological Society exists to expand understanding of music and sound through research, teaching, learning, and advocacy. To realize its mission, the Society fosters new work through a range of grants, fellowships, publication subventions, and awards; encourages exchange through publications, meetings, performances, lectures, and other public programs; and supports the professional lives of its members and constituents through workshops, mentoring, discussion forums, and other resources. As a guiding principle, the AMS promotes equity, access, and inclusion.
The Eileen Southern Travel Fund (ESTF) grant program provides travel grants to the AMS Annual Meeting for minority undergraduates and terminal master’s degree candidates interested in exploring careers in musicology. As part of each Eileen Southern Travel Fund grant recipients receive travel, lodging, complimentary registration and a one-year complimentary membership in the AMS. They are also hosted at the annual meeting by the Eileen Southern Travel Fund Committee, which organizes cohort and mentorship activities, including introductions to representatives of graduate programs in musicology from across the country, future colleagues and mentors, exposure to the Society’s many interest groups, and opportunities to attend various annual meeting sessions and programs.

Eligibility

Application is open to minority undergraduates and terminal master’s degree candidates (Black/African, Asian, Hispanic, Native Americans/Indigenous, or Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders). International students who are in the aforementioned minority groups and who are enrolled at U.S. or Canadian universities at the time of the conference are eligible to apply for the award. Funding is available to recipients to assist with travel and lodging expenses.

Ineligibility

Please note that AMS does not provide airfare from outside the U.S. or Canada.