Howard fellowships support early mid-career artists and scholars to pursue proposed projects of their choosing. Support is particularly intended to augment paid sabbatical leaves. In the case of independent artists or scholars, or those without paid leaves, the Howard Fellowship would enable them to devote a substantial block of time to the proposed project. Fellowships are for $40,000 and open to any applicant who can legally live and work in the U.S. Fellowships support projects in the fields of Music for Performance and Musicology, Ethnomusicology, and Sound Studies.