Doctoral Student Travel Award
AAIS is pleased to announce a call for applications for travel awards for
doctoral students who will present their research at the AAIS conference in
Philadelphia, March 13-15, 2025.
AAIS will award up to six travel grants of $500.00 each.
Please read the instructions that follow carefully, then use this form to submit the material required by midnight February 1, 2025:
• A 250-word abstract of the proposed paper.
• A brief biographical blurb.
• A letter or email of acceptance of the papers from the panel/roundtable organizer(s).
• A brief letter of support from the primary dissertation advisor or another appropriate faculty member.
• A brief statement explaining how this award will help you traveling to AAIS Annual Conference in Philadelphia (see form for further details).
• A CV.
Full consideration will be given to applications that arrive by the deadline.
Assegnisti are also eligible for this award.
Please make sure to read the form for further details in order to prepare for submission.
Awards are granted exclusively to member in good standing. To know more on how to renew your membership or on how to join AAIS, please consult our FAQs page.
Membership is valid through the calendar year (January through December).
PLEASE NOTE:
- If you are NOT currently a member, please go to this page and apply for a 2025 membership.
You can still apply for the award now, but you must then have an active membership in 2025 to be considered since Awards are granted exclusively to members in good standing.
- If you are a lapsed member (membership expired in 2023 or earlier), please login into your account, click on My Dues Renewal, and follow instructions on the screen.
- If you are a returning member (active), MAKE SURE to renew by following the link sent to you by the system with the 2025 invoice attached. That way you will be able to renew in December 2024 for the whole year 2025.
Past Recipients of the Graduate Student Travel Award
2023:
Six Graduate Student Travel Awards were granted for the conference in Fort Worth, Texas
Marco Calogero, New York University
Frances Clemente, University of Oxford
Lourdes Contreras, University of Pennsylvania
Gerardo Pisacane, University of Oregon
Soraya Cipolla, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2022:
Six Graduate Student Travel Awards were granted for the conference in Bologna
Giuseppe Fidotta, Concordia University
Mohammed Jamali, University of Toronto
Valerio Rossi, UT-Austin
Luna Sarti, University of Pennsylvania
Judith Tauber, Cornell University
Sally Tucker, UC Berkeley
2019:
Six Graduate Student Travel Awards were granted for the conference in Winston-Salem:
Lauren De Camilla, The Ohio State University
Ashley Lindeman, Florida State
Dario Marcucci, CUNY Graduate Center
Eleanor Payntor, The Ohio State University
Victoria White, UC Davis
Emiliano Zappalà, University of Warwick
2018:
Seven Graduate Student Travel Awards were granted for the conference in Sorrento:
Felicity Brunner, Universität Zürich
Jim Carter, University of Michigan
Leyla Livraghi, University of Pisa
Dan Paul, The Ohio State University
Paolo Saporito, McGill University
Angeline Young, Arizona State University
Victor Xavier Zarour Zarzar, The Graduate Center, CUNY
2017:
Six Graduate Student Travel Awards were granted for the conference in Columbus:
Brian DeGrazia, New York University
Barbara Martelli, University of Auckland
Dalila Missero, Università di Bologna
Luca Peretti, Yale University
Kevin Regan-Maglione, University of Oregon
Louise Zamparutti, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
2015:
Lucia Gemmani, Indiana University, Bloomington
Anna Wainwright, New York University
Juliano Saccomani, University of Georgia
Merry Low, Florida State University
Daniela d’Eugenio, CUNY, Graduate Center
Sasha Goldman, Boston University