This panel celebrates previous recipients of the Eileen Southern Travel Grant (ESTG). The Committee on Cultural Diversity seeks to showcase the research of these scholars, particularly in the emerging and junior career phases, demonstrating the depth and breadth of scholarship undertaken by this diverse cohort. This year's panel includes three papers: "Einstein on the Beach and the Nuclear Event," Anna Gatdula; "Across the Pacific: Performing "Asian" in Western Classical Music," Shelley Zhang; and "Music Notes, Planter History: Beckford, Burney, and the Orphic Silence of Eighteenth-Century Musicology," Devon Borowski. 
With these three papers, the CCD launches its new mission of developing a long-term mentoring pipeline that fosters the scholarship and careers of ESTG fellows as a concrete way to cultivate diversity within the AMS and support emerging scholars.