The J. Merrill Knapp Research Fellowship
The Board of Directors of The American Handel Society invites applications for the J. Merrill Knapp Research Fellowship to support scholarly projects related to Handel and his world. One or more fellowships may be awarded on even-numbered years to a total of $2,000. Requests for funding may include, but are not limited to, purchase of microfilms, travel for research, and production expenses for publication. This fellowship may be used on its own or to augment other grants or fellowships.
In awarding the Knapp Fellowship, preference will be given to graduate students, scholars in the early stages of their careers, and independent scholars with no source of institutional support.
The deadline for the 2014 award will be March 1, 2014. There is no application form. Each applicant should submit an outline of the project, a budget showing how and when the funds will be used, and a description of other funding for the same project applied for and/or received. In addition, applicants should have two letters of recommendation sent directly to the Knapp Fellowship Committee. Electronic submissions are preferred; letters of recommendation as well as the application itself can be emailed to Professor Richard King at rgking@umd.edu. Paper submissions can be mailed to Professor Richard King,
University of Maryland School of Music, College Park, MD 20742.
The winners of the Fellowship since its establishment in 1989:
Year |
Recipient |
Affiliation |
Supported Research |
| 1989 |
David Ross Hurley |
University of Chicago |
To complete the recipient's dissertation: "Handel's Compositional Process: A
Study of Selected Oratorios" |
| 1990 |
Richard G. King |
Stanford University |
To study Handelian biographical archives in the Netherlands |
| 1991 |
John Winemiller |
University of Chicago |
To complete archival research on Handel's self-borrowings from his abandoned
opera, Titus (1731/32) and thereby complete his dissertation, "Aspects of
neoclassicism in Handel's compositional aesthetic." |
| 1993 |
Michael Corn |
University of Illinois |
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| 1993 |
Channan Willner |
City University of New York |
To complete the recipient's dissertation on the analysis of Handel's music |
| 1995 |
Mark Risinger |
Harvard University |
To study Handel autographs in London and Cambridge, England |
| 1996 |
Barbara Durost |
Claremont Graduate School |
To study manuscript sources of William Croft's works in England and to
search for concordances in major collections of single songs and anthologies in
English libraries, and thereby shed light in Handel's activities during the same
period |
| 1998 |
Todd Gilman |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
To study sources and materials by the English composer and Handel
contemporary, Augustine Arne, at the Britten-Pears library in Aldeburth, England |
| 1999 |
Kenneth McLeod |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
To study sources for Eccles' and Handel's Semele in London to
assist with the completion of his project, "Masculine Anxiety in Handel's Semele" |
| 2000 |
Stanley Pelkey |
Gordon College |
To explore the the formation of canonical repertoires in Georgian Britain
and the influence that those canons, and especially the music of Handel, had on
compositional practices in the ate eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. |
| 2001 |
Major Peter C. Giotta (Asst. Professor of English) |
United States Military Academy (West Point) |
'That Divine Poet': Milton, Handel, and Samson agonistes."Prof. Giotta will
use the Fellowship for a research trip to England to explore how Handel's
oratorio Samson affected the =erception of Milton's poetry in the 18th
century. |
| 2002 |
Minji Kim |
Brandeis University |
To support travel to London for research on the topic "Handel's Israel in
Egypt: a Three-Anthem Oratorio." |
| 2003 |
Zachariah Victor |
Yale University |
To support work on "An Interdisciplinary Study of
Vocal Genres and the Pastoral in the Music of Alessandro Scarlatti, 1693-1707,"
including connections between Handel and Scarlatti as cantata
composers. |
| 2004 |
Ilias Chrissochoidis |
Stanford University |
To support research on the political context of Handel's Esther in
1732. |
| 2005 |
Nathan Link |
Yale University |
To support travel to Hamburg to study the Handel's conducting scores at the Staats- und
Universitรคtsbibliothek. |
| 2009 |
Thomas McGeary |
Independent scholar |
To pay for the provision of numerous illustrations for the 2009 essay in Early Music, "Handel as Art Collector: Art, Connoisseurship and Taste in Hanoverian Britain." |
| 2011 |
Alison Desimone |
University of Michigan |
To support travel to London and Venice for the dissertation "Female Opera Singers and the Performance of Identity in Early Eighteenth-Century London." |
| 2011 |
Andrew Woolley |
University of Southhampton |
To support travel to London, Cambridge and Chichester for the project "Research on the William Walond Manuscript of Keyboard Music in the Gerald Coke Handel Collection at the Foundling Museum Library, London, UK, and Related Sources." |
| 2012 |
Regina Compton |
Eastman School of Music |
To support travel to London to conduct research for her dissertation "Gesture in Handel's Recitative." |
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