Kate Van Winkle Keller Fellowship for Research in Early American Music and Dance

The Kate Van Winkle Keller Fellowship for Research in Early American Music and Dance is funded by an endowment established by Kate’s family and friends and by the Society for American Music (SAM), of which Kate was a founding member and the first Executive Director. The fellowship supports research at the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) for scholars at all levels (graduate student to senior scholar) engaged in scholarly research and writing on American music or dance, which must be appropriate to research collections at the AAS. It is open to individuals affiliated with academic institutions as well as independent scholars. Awardees who are not currently members of the Society for American Music will also be awarded a one-year membership in SAM.

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Date Name Affiliation Position
2024-25 Alexandra Cade University of Delaware PhD Candidate in History Sensory Performance of National Identity in 19th Century American Tourism
2024-25 David F. Garcia University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Professor Border Crossings: Latin U.S. History We Weren’t Taught
2023-24 Crystal Dawn Manuel University of Missouri, Kansas City PhD Candidate in History Female Hymnodists of the Nineteenth Century
2022-23 Berta Joncus University of London Reader in the Department of Music Abolitionist Song: Anglo-American Exchanges, 1780-1810
2020-21 Nym Cooke Independent Scholar Inventory of American Sacred Music Imprints and Manuscripts through 1820
2019-20 Candace Bailey North Carolina Central University Professor of Music Nontraditional Patterns of Gendered Music Circulation