AMS - H. Colin Slim Award for Outstanding Article in Musicology

Organization: American Musicological Society

The H. Colin Slim Award honors each year a musicological article of exceptional merit, published during the previous year in any language and in any country by a scholar who is past the early stages of her or his career and who is a member of the AMS or a citizen or permanent resident of Canada or the United States. "Early stages" of the career is typically indicated by time from completion of the Ph.D. degree, or academic appointment at a non-tenured level, or position of the article among the initial items of the author's bibliography. "Previous year" refers to the de facto year of publication of the article. The award committee will encourage or, if necessary, limit eligibility according to these general guidelines.The committee, consisting of five scholars, will choose a single winner from among all the candidates. The winner will receive a monetary prize and a certificate, conferred at the Annual Business Meeting and Awards Presentation of the Society by the chair of the committee. An individual may receive the award only once.