Polish Association for American Studies

The Graduate School of North American Studies (GSNAS) at Freie Universität Berlin invites applications for

3 doctoral grants with a funding period of one year (1,350 EUR per month, 2023-2024) as well as up to 7 additional doctoral memberships for candidates who have already obtained third-party funding (starting date: October 1, 2023).

Doctoral grants are open to prospective candidates who are interested in pursuing a doctoral project in Cultural Studies, Economics, History, Literary Studies, Political Science or Sociology. Only doctoral projects related to the field of North American Studies can be considered. Applicants will be able to submit their applications via our online platform until January 31, 2023 at 23:59 hours GMT (deadline). Further details can be found on the attached posters and our website at gsnas.fu-berlin.de/en.

Should doctoral candidates at your institution be interested in a short-term stay (2-6 months) at GSNAS, we would appreciate to receive inquiries at visitingresearcher@gsnas.fu-berlin.de.

PAAS 2017/18 CONFERENCE TRAVEL GRANTS FOR DOCTORAL STUDENTS

The Polish Association of American Studies will award travel grants to support doctoral students’ conference trips in the academic year 2017-2018.

Travel Grant Committee:

Prof. UWr dr hab. Zofia Kolbuszewska (Head)
Prof. UAM dr hab. Paulina Ambroży
Dr Justyna Wierzchowska (UW)

Applicants eligible for the grant:

1. must be doctoral students affiliated with one of the Polish institutions of higher education
2. must be current PAAS members who have paid the annual membership fee
3. the conference trip and the paper to be presented should be related to American Studies

Details of the application:

• preference will be given to applicants planning to attend prestigious international conferences abroad
• applicants must submit a confirmation of acceptance from the conference organizers for the application to be considered
• applicants can apply for a maximum of € 200, to cover travel and/or fee, and/ or accommodation and/or meals
• applications should contain the following:
  • an abstract of the presentation and details of the conference (e.g. cfp, conference website, brief description of the conference topic)
  • a brief statement about the relevance of the conference to the applicant’s own research
  • a brief budget summary related to the trip (travel, fee, meals, accommodation), and information about other sources of funding, if any
  • an indication whether the applicant is a full-time or part-time post-graduate student, how their studies are funded; if the applicant is employed at an academic institution, it should also be stated in the application
  • the confirmation of acceptance from the organizers of the conference
  • academic CV (including the list of publications, if applicable)

Submission:
Applications must be submitted electronically to the PAAS Secretary, Prof. Paulina Ambroży (apaulina@wa.amu.edu.pl) by February 28th, 2018
Successful applicants will be notified by March 15, 2018.

Upon their return from the conference, the grantees are obliged to submit scans of relevant receipts and invoices documenting their conference expenses (travel, accommodation and fee) and a brief report on the conference activities and achieved goals. The reports should be sent electronically to the same email address: Prof. Paulina Ambroży: apaulina@wa.amu.edu.pl

The Terra Foundation for American Art in 2014 awarded the College Art Association (CAA) a major, three-year grant to administer an annual program to support book-length scholarly manuscripts in the history of American art. This program, now in its second year, makes funds available to US and non-US publishers through the Terra Foundation for American Art International Publication Grant. Awards of up to $15,000 will be given for books that examine American art in an international context, increase awareness of American art internationally through publication outside the United States, allow wider audiences to access important texts through translation, and/or result from international collaboration. The program also will support the creation of an international network of American art scholars by providing two non-US authors whose books are funded through the grant program with travel stipends and complimentary registration to attend CAA’s Annual Conference.

Grant guidelines, detailed eligibility requirements, and application instructions are available on the CAA website at www.collegeart.org/terrafoundation. Letters of inquiry should be submitted to CAA by September 21, 2015. Applicants whose projects fall within the guidelines and successfully fulfill the mission of the grant program will be invited to submit full applications, due November 9, 2015. Award winners will be announced in March 2016.