In 2018-2019, instead of awarding its annual Graduate Student Research Prize, the Atlantic World Research Network will award up to four Graduate Student Research Grants of up to $500 each to fund outstanding plans for research or creative activity – that is, plans which address the transatlantic exchange or circumatlantic relations, culture, or ecology. These grants will help to fund PhD, MA, MS, MLIS, or MFA supplies and equipment, as well as travel to collections, archives, venues, conferences, workshops, summer seminars, summer schools, museums, archaeological digs, laboratories, studios, theaters, and other sites for original research and creative work.
AWRN will accept applications for projects to be completed during Fall and Spring of the 2018-2019 academic year, as well as during the Summer of 2019. (All awarded funds must be spent or encumbered by 1 May 2019.) The selection committee will consider applications from graduate students in all units of the University. Eligible projects include Masters theses and PhD dissertation chapters, chapbooks, installations, exhibitions, concerts, theatrical performances and productions, scientific findings, journal articles, conference presentations, readings, film and video screenings and postings, and other end products appropriate to the applicant’s discipline.
Successful applications will make significant contributions to Atlantic World studies.
Research plans that are submitted for the 2018-2019 grant competition will not be eligible in future competitions.
For further inquiries about these grants, please email awrn@uncg.edu
Application packet
- Completed application form
- Electronic submissions only, as Word or PDF files, or as links to online resources or documents
- One letter of support submitted independently by sponsoring or overseeing faculty member (see form below)
- Submit to awrn@uncg.eduwith the following subject line: Graduate Student Research Grant YOUR NAME
The deadline for applications and letters of support is Monday, 1 October 2018, at 5 pm. Incomplete applications and applications that do not meet the criteria in this announcement will not be considered.
Winners will be notified by Monday, 15 October 2018. Co-authors or co-presenters of winning applications will share the grant equally. Depending on the quality and number of applications, the selection committee reserves the right to fund some projects at less than $500 each, and to fund fewer than four grants. Grant money will be credited directly to graduate student accounts.
