The Society for American Music announced the 2025 Virgil Thomson Fellowship awardees at their annual conference in March. Congratulations to this year’s fellows:

• Aryn Kelly (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of American Studies, George Washington University) for “Lindy Hop as a Contested Site of Memory and Signification”
• Elizabeth Wollman (Professor, Theatre and Performance, Baruch College and Graduate Center, City University of New York) for “The F Word: Broadway Musical Flops in Transition at the Millennium”

The Society for American Music is a non-profit scholarly and educational organization dedicated to the study, teaching, creation, and dissemination of all musics in the Americas. In addition to its annual conference, SAM provides publishing opportunities, financial support for research, and educational and public programming resources. Established in 2014 with support from the Virgil Thomson Foundation, the Virgil Thomson Fellowship is for scholars at any phase of their careers whose research interest is focused on the history, creation, and analysis of American music on stage and screen, including opera.