Category: Conference Travel

These grants provide students with funds to travel to associated conferences.

AIMS Annual Conference: The Donna Lee Bowen Graduate Student Travel Award

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Updates for the 2018 conference coming soon.

AIMS invites US graduate students to apply for a travel grant to attend the AIMS annual conference in North Africa. Students must have been accepted to give a paper at the Annual Conference.In honor of her many years of service and her sustained encouragement of American graduate students through her work with AIMS, the Graduate Student Travel Award is known as the Donna Lee Bowen Graduate Student Travel Award.

DEADLINE: The 2017 conference was titled Making Space in the Maghrib and held in Tunisia July 8-9, 2017. Applications deadline TBA. Send title/abstract of paper and a current CV to: aims@aimsnorthafrica.org (Date TBA).

ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be a US Citizen and a member of the AIMS Graduate Student Association, the GSA.

AWARD: The travel award provides roundtrip airfare up to $1500 in reimbursed air travel to the AIMS conference. Flights must be on a US carrier.

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AIMS at MESA:The Jeanne Jeffers Mrad Graduate Student Travel Award

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AIMS invites graduate students to apply for a travel grant to attend the annual MESA meeting. Students must have been successfully accepted to give a paper at the annual MESA meeting. Paper themes must concern North African studies and all disciplines are welcome. In honor of her many years of service to AIMS and her sustained encouragement of graduate students through her work at CEMAT, the AIMS Graduate Student Travel Awards are known as the Jeanne Jeffers Mrad Graduate Student Travel Awards.

DEADLINE: Send title/abstract of paper and a current CV to: aims@aimsnorthafrica.org by August 31, 2018.

ELIGIBILITY :Applicants must be members of AIMS at the time of submission. Applications welcome from all nationalities.

AWARD: AIMS offers awards from $100 to $500 to support the cost of domestic travel, per diem and MESA fees.

(Please note the MESA deadline for submissions is Feb 15th.)

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Medieval Academy/CARA Conference Grant

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DEADLINE:The MAA/CARA Conference Grant will be awarded annually to a regional or consortial Medieval Studies Program or Association to support an annual regional or consortial conference taking place the year after the application is submitted (for example, applications will be accepted in 2017 for conferences taking place in 2018). Please note: graduate-student run conferences and meetings are NOT eligible for this award. Students should apply to the MAA/GSC Grant program instead.

ELIGIBILITY: All primary applicants must be MAA members in good standing by September 15 of the year in which the application is submitted. Formal affiliation with CARA is ideal but is not required. The conference/symposium must be sponsored by a regional, institutional, or consortial association or program.

AWARD: Awards will be based on proposals adjudicated by the Academy’s CARA Committee.  One (1) grant of $1,000 will be awarded each year.

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NeMLA Travel Award

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The Graduate Student Caucus provides a number of travel awards to graduate students.

Evaluation is based on the quality of the student’s abstract and the relevance of their topic in their respective fields.

DEADLINE: December 1

ELIGIBILITY: The awards are open to any graduate student who has been accepted to present or chair a session at the upcoming convention. Applicants must submit, in the body of an email:

  • the accepted abstract and its title
  • a statement of no more than 250 words describing the presentation’s relevance to their field
  • If the presentation is part of a larger project, the statement must explain the larger project’s intervention into the field.

AWARD: Undefined

Please send abstracts to gsc@nemla.org between October 15 and December 1.

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AAS Northeast Asia Council (NEAC)-Korean Studies Grants

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The Northeast Asia Council (NEAC)of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), in conjunction with the Korea Foundation, offers a grant program in Korean studies designed to assist the research of individual scholars based in North America to improve the quality of teaching about Korea on both the college and precollege levels, and to integrate the study of Korea into the major academic disciplines.

Grants are available in the following categories:

1.Research Travel – North America

2.Short-term Research Travel Outside North America

3.Workshops and Conferences

DEADLINE: Grant applications must be received by no later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on FEBRUARY 1 for the spring/summer awards and OCTOBER 1 for the fall/winter awards

ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must be current AAS members

AWARD: Grant rewards vary on category, $1,500- $5,000.

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AAS Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) Japan Studies Grants

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The Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), in conjunction with the Japan-US Friendship Commission, supports a variety of grant programs in Japanese studies designed to facilitate the research of individual scholars, to improve the quality of teaching about Japan on both the college and precollege levels, and to integrate the study of Japan into the major academic disciplines in the United States.

Grants are available in the following categories:

1.Research Travel within the USA

2.Short-term Research Travel to Japan

3.Seminars on Teaching about Japan

4.Small Scholarly Conferences on Japanese Studies

DEADLINE: Grant applications must be received by no later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on FEBRUARY 1 for the spring/summer awards and OCTOBER 1 for the fall/winter awards.

ELIGIBILITY: Current AAS members, Individual applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents and institutional applicants must be located within the USA

AWARD: Grant rewards vary on category, $2,000- $5,000.

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