The Society for Seventeenth-Century Music

Diversity and Inclusion Research Award

The Society for Seventeenth-Century Music seeks applications for a Research Award for Diversity and Inclusion, to support underrepresented scholars at early stages of their careers, and to support topics of research that are underrepresented in the field of seventeenth-century music. Preference will be given to graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, contingent faculty, pre-tenure faculty, and independent scholars.

Application deadline: January 15^th, 2025

Eligibility

• scholars from underrepresented groups, such as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, or People of Color), LGBTQ+ scholars or scholars with disabilities, with a seventeenth-century project and
• SSCM members with a project that diversifies the study of seventeenth-century music

Which projects can be supported:

• We invite proposals to fund research, and open-source pedagogical resource development, as well as public-facing works that increase diversity in the field of seventeenth-century music studies.
• This award can be used for digitization of archival material, for travel to archives or libraries, for the cost of recording underrepresented musical repertoires that then is freely accessible to the public, for translations of source material and secondary sources, for working on a lecture series (e.g., see the digital lectures series sponsored by SAM), or for other projects pertaining to diversifying the scholarship of music of the long seventeenth century (e.g., research that decenters Europe or otherwise expands the arc of research in seventeenth-century music, performance recordings of seventeenth-century BIPOC composers, or the production of video lectures aimed at a broader/undergraduate audience that refocus seventeenth-century musical cultures).

Proposals must include a detailed budget of up to USD 1,500. If the research grant should be used as a travel grant, the budget must detail travel expenses, room and board, the admission costs to libraries or archives, or other expenses necessary for the project. The Diversity and Inclusion Research Award Committee will notify applicants of decisions by early March, 2024.

As scholars and students of music of the long seventeenth century, we recognize that we, as the letter from the SSCM Board from 23 June 2020 states, “unwittingly uphold whiteness as the norm, appearing to prioritize it even as we fail to name it.” As a community, we acknowledge the predominant Eurocentric focus of scholarly work, the under-representation of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) voices in scholarship on music of the long seventeenth century, and the barriers that our BIPOC colleagues face in our field. We are also mindful of the extra load that BIPOC scholars and students must bear.

The Society for Seventeenth-Century Music therefore seeks, with the Diversity and Inclusion Research Award, to:

• acknowledge the lack of support scholars of underrepresented groups (e.g., BIPOC, LGBTQ+, scholars with disabilities) face.
• support early career scholars of underrepresented groups working on any aspect of music of the long seventeenth century through research awards to acknowledge pedagogical or research work on topics that increase diversity in our field (especially racial, gender [LGBTQ+], geographic, and methodological diversity) through research awards.

Application link for the 2025 award will be available later this year.

 

2024

Qingfan Jiang (Assistant Professor, Peabody Institute), open-access translation of Lülü Zuanyao 律呂纂要 [Elements of Music] (c. 1685), the first Western music theory treatise written in Chinese

2023

Paul Feller-Simmons (Ph.D. candidate, Northwestern University), Jewish musicians at fairs in Frankfurt in the 17th century

SSCM Annual Meeting, Yale University, April 3-6, 2025

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