The 2025 Bessaraboff Prize is awarded to James Westbrook for Guitar Making in Nineteenth-Century London: Louis Panormo and his Contemporaries (Halesowen: ASG Music Limited, 2023).
The 2025 Frances Densmore Prize is awarded to Jayson Dobney for his article “Side Drums, Race, and Power in North America,” published in the 2023 volume of the Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society.
