Harold Powers World Travel Fund
for Research on Music
The Harold Powers World Travel Fund is intended to encourage and assist Ph.D. candidates, post-docs, and junior faculty in all fields of musical scholarship to travel anywhere in the world to carry out the necessary work for their dissertation or other research. The Fund honors the polymathic scholar and distinguished longtime AMS member whose publications have ranged from music and language to medieval mode to Indian music to Puccini and whose interests are wider still, but always with the communicative aspects of music at their base. The current maximum award is set at $1,000.
Eligible applicants must currently attend or have graduated from a doctoral program in a North American university. If they seek to conduct research for their dissertation, they must have completed all other requirements for the Ph.D. (or the equivalent doctoral degree in any field of music scholarship). If they seek to conduct post-doctoral research, they should have completed the Ph.D. within the past five years.
The application should be in the form of a statement of up to 1,000 words describing the research topic, a research plan, projected itinerary, and institutions where research would occur. It should also provide a budget for travel and lodging. The latter should state the amount of support that can be provided by the applicant’s home institution, if applicable. Letters of support are required from two scholars; if applicable, one must be the present or former dissertation advisor.
Applications for the following AMS travel and research grants will be 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. A place to indicate which travel grant(s) you wish to be considered for is found on the Application cover sheet. Although applicants may request to be considered for several grants, only one travel grant may be awarded to successful applicants. No individual may receive a travel grant more than once in a three-year period.
M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet Endowment
for research in France
William Holmes / Frank D’Accone Endowment
for travel and research in the history of opera
Jan LaRue Travel Endowment
for European research
Harold Powers World Travel Endowment
for research throughout the world
Ora Frishberg Saloman Endowment
for musicological research
Eugene K. Wolf Travel Endowment
for European research
The Application cover sheet and all materials must be submitted by 5 p.m. EST, 1 March 2012 to the office of the AMS. The winner(s) will be announced by 1 May and at the Annual Business Meeting and Awards Presentation of the Society. Please submit materials via e-mail attachment to the office of the AMS. Letters of support may likewise be e-mailed or faxed to the AMS office. Writers of letters of support need send only one letter, regardless of the number of travel grants the applicant wishes to be considered for. Please communicate with the office if questions arise.
