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Donate Congratulations to this year’s recipients of a Career Development Grant in American Music! The purpose of the grants are to support participation in annual meeting programming that deepens grantees’ knowledge of American music and strengthens their professional networks. Grant recipients will participate in relevant activities at the upcoming AMS Annual Meeting in Chicago as part of a cohort of fourteen.
Lauren Berlin
Eastman School of Music
Areas of Interest: Media and dance studies from both of the Americas; musical diplomacy; theater and entertainment music in the US.
Shelina Brown
University of Cincinnati – College Conservatory of Music
Areas of Interest: Feminist hermeneutics and experimental vocal practices within American countercultural music scenes; emphasizing cultural exchange between Japan and the U.S.
Thomas Cimarusti
Florida Gulf Coast University
Areas of Interest: Musical practices within intentional communities and the reception of European composers in the American concert hall; Moravian composers; musical practices of the Koreshans; musical traditions of Louisiana (ie., zydeco and cajun) and popular music
Kaitlyn Clawson-Cannestra
University of Oregon
Areas of Interest: Film music; female composers, gender and sexuality studies; Disney studies
Jacob Labarge
University of Maryland
Areas of Interest: American immigrant musical preservation (with a focus on Ukrainian American music) and cross-cultural connections
Koeun Grace Lee
Harper College Community Music and Arts Center
Areas of Interest: General musical trends in the U.S.; piano music in America; Ethnomusicology in America
Sarah Lindmark
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Areas of Interest: Popular music; improvised social dance; club cultures in the U.S.; disco; electronic music technologies; music and capitalism
Marvin McNeill
Oxford College of Emory University
Areas of Interest: African American traditional folk and popular music, with a special interest in the African American band tradition; history of rock and R&B
Alec Norkey
University of California, Los Angeles
Areas of Interest: Contemporary classical music in the U.S.; African American music; Latin American music; Asian American music
Robert Normandie
Claremont Graduate University and Mt. San Antonio College
Areas of Interest: The film and concert music of John Williams
Rebecca Schreiber
Xavier University
Areas of Interest: Nineteenth-century music and U.S. national identity; programmatic music and U.S. identity; women in U.S. music and social justice/activism
Mingyeong Son
Asian Music Research Institute
Areas of Interest: American contemporary composers; Korean-American Music; American musicians’ intercultural collaborative music making with Korean Musicians; American improvisational music
Matthew Van Vleet
Indiana University
Areas of Interest: Musical Americanism in the twentieth century, especially in the context of military music; the marching arts; drum and bugle corps
John Wood
University of Oregon
Areas of Interest: Ecomusicology; automobiles; popular music; rock ‘n’ roll, political economy; labor
