AMS Administrative Handbook

Table of Contents

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• I. Structure of the American Musicological Society
• A. Officers
  • 1. President
    • President-elect
    • Past President
  • 2. Vice President
  • 3. Treasurer
  • 4. Secretary
• B. Board of Directors
• C. Council
  • 1. Council Secretary
  • 2. Council Meetings
  • 3. Travel reimbursement for student members
• D. Chapters
• E. Study Groups and Affiliate Societies
• F. Other Appointments
  • 1. Executive Director
  • 2. AMS Publications
    • a. Journal of the American Musicological Society
      • i. Editor-in-Chief
      • ii. Reviews Editor
      • iii. Editorial Board
      • iv. Assistant Editor
    • b. AMS Studies, Editor
    • c. Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology
    • d. AMS Newsletter, Editor
  • 3. AMS Archives, Archivist
  • 4. AMS-L Moderating Team
  • 5. Representatives
    • a. AMS Delegate to ACLS
    • b. AMS Representative to Library of Congress, National Recording Preservation Board
    • c. AMS Representative to U.S. RILM Board
    • d. AMS Representative to the Grove Music Online Advisory Panel
    • e. AMS Representative to NASM
• II. Committees
• A. Introduction
  • 1. General Principles and Procedures
  • 2. Guidelines for Committee Chairs
• B. Committees Mandated in the By-Laws
  • 1. Standing Committees
    • a. Executive Committee
    • b. Finance Committee
    • c. Publications Committee
      • i. Committee on the Publication of American Music (COPAM)
  • 2. Annual Committees
    • a. Annual Meeting Committees
      • i. Local Arrangements Committee
      • ii. Performance Committee
      • iii. Program Committee
    • b. Board Nominating Committee
  • 3. Council Committees
    • a. Council Nominating Committee
    • b. Council Committee on Corresponding and Honorary Members
• C. Committees Established by the Board
  • 1. Board Committees
    • a. Board Committee on the Annual Meeting
    • b. Board Committee on Committees
    • c. Board Committee on Communications
      • i. AMS Newsletter
      • ii. AMS website
      • iii. AMS-L Moderating Team
      • iv. Committee on Obituaries
    • d. Committee on Membership and Professional Development
  • 2. Award Committees
    • a. Fellowships
      • i. Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowship Committee
      • ii. Howard M. Brown Fellowship Committee
    • c. Awards for Articles, Books, Papers
      • i. The Alfred Einstein Award Committee
      • ii. The Noah Greenberg Award Committee
      • iii. The Otto Kinkeldey Award Committee
      • iv. The Lewis Lockwood Award Committee
      • v. The Music in American Culture Award Committee
      • vi. The Claude M. Palisca Award Committee
      • vii. The Paul A. Pisk Prize Committee
      • viii. The H. Colin Slim Award Committee
      • ix. The Ruth A. Solie Award Committee
      • x. Robert M. Stevenson Award Committee
    • d. Travel and Research Fund Awards
      • i. M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet Fund for Research in France Committee
      • ii. Janet Levy Fund for Independent Scholars Committee
      • iii. Harold Powers World Travel Fund for Research on Music Committee
      • iv. Eugene K. Wolf Travel Fund Committee
      • v. Jan LaRue Travel Fund for Research Travel to Europe Committee
      • vi. Teaching Fund Committee
      • vii. Thomas Hampson Fund Committee
      • viii. Virginia and George Bozarth Travel Fund Committee
  • 3. Other Committees
    • a. AMS-MLA Committee on RISM
    • b. Chapter Activities Committee
    • c. Committee on the History of the Society
    • d. Committee on Membership and Professional Development
      • i. Committee on Career-Related Issues
      • ii. Committee on Cultural Diversity
        • (a) Eileen Southern Travel Fund
      • iii. Committee on the Status of Women
      • iv. Graduate Education Steering Committee
    • e. Development Committee
• D. Committees Established by the Council
• E. Committees Established by Chapters, Study Groups and Affiliate Societies
  • 1. The Philip Brett Award Committee