The Travel and Research Grant supports research or creative projects to be conducted away from the Bloomington campus, and which can be accomplished within a time frame of two to five weeks. Grants are not intended for conference travel or for teaching purposes.
Applications should include the following materials:
- relevant part of C.V.
- a 500 word summary of the project
- budget
- timetable
- letter of support from the Department Chair
- one other letter of recommendation from an IU faculty member or from an outside source.
For information on deadlines, formats, and how to apply, please see the "Programs & Guidelines" page.
Normally, maximum grant amount is $7,000.
CAHI will not fund a travel and research grant proposal which has received internal or external funds for the same project, unless there is evidence of different components in the application and budget. Expenditures must follow all university and College policies.
Upon Completion of an Award
The Institute requires that all grant and fellowship recipients send a brief description of the scholarly/artistic activities accomplished as a result of the CAHI award by the end of the semester following the award period. All grant recipients are kindly requested to acknowledge the support of the College Arts and Humanities Institute in any flyers, posters, publications or publicity.
Titles of recent travel grants awarded:
- Friendship’s Shadows: Women’s Ethical Friendship and Political Community in the English Civil Wars and Restoration (Anderson, English)
- Residency at the Franz Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium to Create a Series of White Ground Prints (Bernstein, Fine Arts - Studio)
- Co-producing the Asia Pacific – Travels in Technology, Space and Gender (De Boer, Communication and Culture)
- Charles Hodge: Guardian of American Orthodoxy (Gutjahr, English)
- Walking and Romanticism (Manning, English)
- Sinful Subjects, Successful Texts: Religion, Nationalism, and Male Homosexuality in Hispanic Fiction (Mejías-López, Spanish and Portuguese)
- The Cistercian Reform and the Art of the Book in Twelfth-Century France (Reilly, Fine Arts - History)
- The "Black Horror" Campaign: Race, Gender, and German Nationalism in the Aftermath of World War I (Roos, History)
- Historical lexicography of Louisiana French (Rottet, French and Italian)
- Pilobolus and the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange: the Embodied Evolution of a Philosophy and a Choreography (Royce, Anthropology)
- Fantasía: The Carnival Costumes of Filhos de Gandhy (Shukla, Folklore and Ethnomusicology)
- Road Comics: Big Work on Small Stages (Seizer, Communication and Culture)
- Suhraward? Manuscripts in Iran (Walbridge, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures)
- The Origins of the Model Minority: Race and Asian American Citizenship in the Mid-Twentieth Century (Wu, History)