Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Fellowship

The Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Fellowship provides funding for the final year of PhD dissertation work and is awarded on the basis of academic merit. Fellows receive a twelve-month stipend, currently set at $25,000. The fellowships are intended for full-time study and are designed to support doctoral students completing their dissertations in music studies. Fellows may also elect to accept the award on a non-stipendiary basis. It is expected that a fellow's dissertation will be completed within the fellowship year. Fellows are selected in the spring and announced in the summer. The fellowship is available to any student registered in good standing for a doctorate at a North American university who has completed all formal degree requirements except the dissertation at the time of full application. An equivalent major award from another source may not be held concurrently or consecutively unless the AMS award is accepted without a stipend. Fellows are expected to focus on completing their dissertations and not to undertake more than twenty hours each week of paid or unpaid employment during the fellowship term.