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Society for Ethnomusicology
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Charles Seeger Prize (Society for Ethnomusicology)
The Society for Ethnomusicology’s Charles Seeger Prize awards $200 annually for the most distinguished student paper presented at the SEM Annual Meeting.
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- $200
Historical Ethnomusicology Section Student Paper Prize
The Society for Ethnomusicology’s Historical Ethnomusicology Section offers an annual Student Paper Prize recognizing outstanding conference papers that creatively bridge historical musicology and ethnomusicology.
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- $200
Wong Tolbert Student Paper Prize
The Society for Ethnomusicology’s Section on the Status of Women offers the annual Wong Tolbert Student Paper Prize to recognize an outstanding student paper on women and music that engages feminist, queer, gender, or related social theories.
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- $250
Alan Merriam Prize
The Society for Ethnomusicology awards the Alan Merriam Prize annually to recognize the most distinguished English-language monograph in ethnomusicology published as an author’s second or later monograph; the recipient receives $300.
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- $300
Bruno Nettl Prize
The Society for Ethnomusicology offers the annual Bruno Nettl Prize to recognize an outstanding publication on the history, character, methods, or broader scholarly contexts of ethnomusicology, with a $500 award.
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- $500
Deborah Wong Research & Publication Award
The Society for Ethnomusicology offers the annual Deborah Wong Research & Publication Award to support research or publication expenses in ethnomusicology for scholars from marginalized groups.
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- $2,000
Helen Roberts Prize
The Society for Ethnomusicology offers the annual Helen Roberts Prize, including a $200 award, to recognize the most significant ethnomusicology article written by a Society member beyond the first 10 years of their scholarly career.
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- $200
Ida Halpern Fellowship and Award
The Society for Ethnomusicology administers the Ida Halpern Fellowship and Award to support research on Native American music of the United States and Canada and to recognize subsequent publication, providing a $4,000 research fellowship (awarded at the Annual Meeting) and a $1,000 post-publication prize.
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- $5,000
Jaap Kunst Prize
The Society for Ethnomusicology awards the annual Jaap Kunst Prize to recognize the most significant article in ethnomusicology by a scholar within the first 10 years of their scholarly career, with a $200 cash prize.
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- $200
Portia K. Maultsby Prize
The Society for Ethnomusicology offers the annual Portia K. Maultsby Prize, including a $500 award, to recognize the most distinguished English-language monograph on African American music and/or Black music of the diaspora.
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- $500
Robert M. Stevenson Prize (Society for Ethnomusicology)
The Society for Ethnomusicology offers the Robert M. Stevenson Prize to honor ethnomusicologists who are also composers by awarding up to $1,000 for a single original composition; a recording (or excerpt) will be presented at the SEM Annual Meeting and a live performance may be arranged if feasible.
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- $1,000
Ruth Stone Prize
The Society for Ethnomusicology awards the annual Ruth Stone Prize to recognize the most distinguished English-language first monograph in ethnomusicology, with a $300 cash prize.
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- $300
The Richard Waterman Junior Scholar Prize (PMSSEM)
The Society for Ethnomusicology’s PMSSEM offers the Richard Waterman Junior Scholar Prize annually to recognize the best article on the ethnomusicological study of popular music published during the preceding year.
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- $200
Esther Clinton Annual Prize Competition
The Society for Ethnomusicology’s Popular Music Section (PMSSEM) offers the Esther Clinton Prize to recognize the best article or essay on the ethnomusicological study of popular music published during the previous calendar year.
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- $200
Gertrude Rivers Robinson Annual Meeting Travel Award
The Society for Ethnomusicology offers the Gertrude Rivers Robinson Annual Meeting Travel Award, providing $1,000 in annual travel support to increase participation of underrepresented ethnomusicologists at the SEM Annual Meeting.
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- $1,000
Gertrude Rivers Robinson Annual Meeting Travel Award
The Society for Ethnomusicology offers the annual Gertrude Rivers Robinson Annual Meeting Travel Award to provide $1,000 in travel support for African American and African Caribbean doctoral candidates who have completed all but the dissertation (ABD) and untenured faculty attending the SEM Annual Meeting.
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- $1,000
African and African Diasporic Music Section Kwabena Nketia Book Prize
The Society for Ethnomusicology’s African and African Diasporic Music Section offers the Kwabena Nketia Book Prize to recognize an outstanding book or monograph on African or African diasporan music published within the previous two to three years.
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- Amount
- $200
21st Century Fellowship
The Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) awards two annual 21st Century Fellowships—an Open Fellowship and a Specialized Fellowship—each providing $7,500 to support Ph.D. dissertation fieldwork in ethnomusicology.
- Deadline
- Not listed
- Amount
- $7,500
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