Call for Submissions: 2024 IAWM Pauline Alderman Awards

The International Alliance for Women in Music is pleased to announce the 2024 cycle for the Pauline Alderman Awards for outstanding scholarship on women in music. Works published during the calendar years 2022 and 2023 will be considered for cash prizes in the following categories: 

1. An outstanding book-length monograph about women in music, including biography, history, analysis, and critical interpretation, in any academic format (e.g., book, dissertation, or thesis);
2. An outstanding journal article or essay treating an aspect of women in music; and
3. An outstanding bibliographic study, research tool, or reference work about women in music.

Any individual or organization with current membership of IAWM may submit works for consideration along with a letter of nomination. If the membership is not current at time of submission, the work will be disqualified. Only the person submitting the nomination must have current membership. To join IAWM or renew your membership, please see the IAWM website here: https://iawm.org/join-iawm.

Closing date for submissions: December 1, 2024  

The letter of nomination must state the title of the work, name of nominating IAWM member or organization, contact information for the author(s), and a full bibliographic citation including the title and publication data of the work nominated. If the work is available in electronic form, please include the PDF or link to its online publication in the letter of nomination. The work need not be in English. Letters of nomination should be emailed to [email protected] with “IAWM Pauline Alderman Awards Nomination” in the subject line. 

Please submit the work in electronic form where possible. If submitting a physical book, please send the letter of nomination by email. Physical submissions must be postmarked no later than December 1, 2024. Please include a self-addressed, paid-postage mailer if you wish to have your submission returned.

Physical submissions should be sent to:
Jennifer Lamont, Chair
Pauline Alderman Awards Committee, IAWM
PO Box 165 
Tarpon Springs, FL 34688 

Works will be evaluated for originality, quality and significance of research, clarity of writing, persuasiveness, and utility as a model for future scholarship. 

The Pauline Alderman Awards were founded in 1985 by the International Congress on Women in Music to honor the memory of pioneering musicologist Dr. Pauline Alderman (1893–1983), founder and chair of the Music History Department of the University of Southern California. Recipients of the Pauline Alderman Awards include some of the most distinguished scholars writing about women and music. For further information, see: https://iawm.org/pauline-alderman-awards

For questions, contact Chair Jennifer Lamont at [email protected].