Harold Powers World Travel Fund Grant

The Harold Powers World Travel Fund, established by the American Musicological Society, provides financial assistance for doctoral students and recent Ph.D. graduates to conduct musicological research globally. Awards typically range from $500 to $5000, with preference given to those from institutions lacking financial support for research. The fund honors Harold Powers, a distinguished scholar known for his contributions to various fields of music. Applicants may apply annually, adhering to specific eligibility criteria.

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 Harold Powers World Travel Fund  honors the polymathic scholar and distinguished AMS member whose publications have ranged from music and language to medieval mode to Indian music to Puccini and whose interests were wider still, but always with the communicative aspects of music at their base.
Topical Focus
Global-oriented and disciplinarily open.
Funding
The average award amount is typically between $500 to $5000.

Eligibility

The award is to be given annually to one or more doctoral students at or Ph.D. graduates of North American universities to conduct doctoral or post-doctoral musicological research in all fields of musical scholarship and throughout the world. If they seek to conduct research for their dissertation, they must have completed all other requirements for the Ph.D. If they seek to conduct post-doctoral research, they should have completed the Ph.D. within the past five years. AMS travel and research grants are reviewed by a single committee. Since the terms for these grants have overlapping areas of emphasis, applicants may request to be considered for more than one, if appropriate.

Ineligibility

No individual may receive a travel/research grant more than once in a three-year period.