Research Travel Grants support 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. Applications should include the following materials:
- relevant part of C.V.
- a 500 word summary of the project
- budget
- timetable
- Chair’s endorsement
- one other letter of recommendation
Maximum grant amount is $7,000. Applications are evaluated by a Review Board composed of tenure-stream faculty of the Bloomington campus.
N.B.: Grants are not intended for travel to attend conferences or for teaching purposes.
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:
- The Album in the Age of Russian and Polish Romanticism: Memory, Nation, Authorship (Slavic Languages and Literatures)
- Interpreting Australia's Indigenous Plant Forms With New Technologies (Fine Arts – Studio)
- Kosovo since 1999: Coping with Indeterminacy (Linguistics)
- Standup People: Comedy as Culture Critique (Communication and Culture)
- Ruparam Chakravarti's Dharma Mangala: A critical edition and translation (Religious Studies)