The American Musicological Society awards individuals each year with the Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 dissertation-year fellowship, which is funded by a campaign that was initiated when the society turned 50 in 1984 (hence the name “AMS 50″). In 2011, two of the AMS 50 Fellowships went to UC Davis graduate students for the first time in the award’s history.

Chantal Frankenbach earned the award with her dissertation title “Disdain for Dance, Disdain for France: Choreophobia in German Musical Modernism.” Beverly Wilcox earned the award with her dissertation title “The Music Libraries of the Concert Spirituel: Canons, Repertoires, and Bricolage in Eighteenth-Century Paris. The award consists of a 12-month stipend of $19,000.