College of Arts and Humanities

ARHU Graduate Student Travel Awards 2017-2018 

To support the professional development of its graduate students through the presentation of original research, the College of Arts and Humanities awards travel monies to significant national and international conferences. There will be three competitions per year with approximately nine awards given in each competition. 

Eligible expenses include transportation, lodging, registration fees and per diem for food. 

General Guidelines: 

Up to $500 for travel within North America and $700 for international travel. 

Priority will be given to students attending national or international conferences of major professional organizations. ARHU particularly seeks to help students toward the end of their graduate careers gain experience and make contacts important to their intellectual and professional development and to their job prospects. However, the Fellowship Committee will hold aside a certain amount of funding for students presenting original work at prestigious conferences early in their careers (e.g., before advancing to candidacy). 

Preference will be given to students who have not had an ARHU Travel Award in the past, unless it was an early career award. Awards will not be given for travel that has already taken place. 

These applications must be entered on time into the online system to be considered for the current cycle. The online application system will close at midnight on each of the three deadline dates below. 

College deadlines (for students and departments to submit materials online):

• Round 1: Monday, October 2, 2017 (for travel taking place between October 1, 2017 and December 3, 2017) 
• Round 2: Monday, December 4, 2017 (for travel taking place between December 4, 2017 to May 6, 2018) 
• Round 3: Monday, May 7, 2018 (for travel taking place between May 7, 2018 to September 30, 2018) 

Please check with the individual program graduate director about departmental deadlines. 

The application process for Travel Awards is entirely online. No paper applications will be accepted. 

The application process is easy: 

Students should go to http://apply.arhu.umd.edu and click on Travel Awards, provide all the supporting information, and submit the application. (Students can work on an application, save, and come back to the site as well, so they don’t have to do everything at once). 

The supporting information requested is as follows: 

• Short CV (including up-to-date contact information and address)

• Letter of application including:

• Stage of graduate career (e.g., defending dissertation in Fall 2016)
• Brief description (no more than two paragraphs) of the research to be presented, its significance in the field, and the format of the presentation (e.g. paper on a panel, poster presentation). Please keep in mind that the research should be contextualized for non-specialists.
• Brief description of the conference and its organizing body, including the url of the conference/organization website. Include a statement of the review process for the accepted research.
• Statement of the contribution the conference will make to your career.
• Statement of whether application has been made for this trip to other funding sources (e.g. Goldhaber Travel Awards from the Graduate School).  Students are encouraged to apply for outside funding.
• Budget of estimated costs
• Copy of the letter/email accepting/inviting the presentation

If you encounter any technical problems using the online system, please contact Megan Weng.  https://apply.arhu.umd.edu/contact

If you have questions about the Travel Awards themselves, or if your students have questions, please contact Trevor Parry-Giles, 301-641-0019 or tpg@umd.edu. 

The purpose of the Research Advisory Comittee is to create a channel for faculty voice on the research agenda and efforts of the college. The college is seeking guidance from faculty who are committed to excellence in their field's areas of scholarship and other intellectual pursuits. The Research Committee will consist of the Associate Dean for Research and Programming, and a representative from various ARHU academic units and centers. 

 2017-18 Inaugural Members (alphabetical order):

• Christopher Bonner (HIST)
• Jorge Bravo (CLAS)
• David Ellis (NFLC)
• Ken Elpus (MUSC)
• Maxine Grossman (JWST)
• Frank Hildy (TDPS)
• Curlee Raven Holton (Driskell Center)
• Maura Keefe (TDPS)
• Fatemeh Keshavarz (SLLC)
• Trevor Munoz (MITH)
• Irina Muresanu (MUSC)
• Zita Nunes (ENGL)
• Colin Phillips (LING)
• Damien Pfister (COMM)
• Joshua Shannon (ARTH)
• Rachel Singpurwalla (PHIL)
• Janelle Wong (AMST)
• Liese Zahabi (ARTT)
• Ruth Zambrana (WMST/CRGE)

ARHU Graduate Student Travel Awards 2017-2018 

To support the professional development of its graduate students through the presentation of original research, the College of Arts and Humanities awards travel monies to significant national and international conferences. There will be three competitions per year with approximately nine awards given in each competition. 

Eligible expenses include transportation, lodging, registration fees and per diem for food. 

General Guidelines: 

Up to $500 for travel within North America and $700 for international travel. 

Priority will be given to students attending national or international conferences of major professional organizations. ARHU particularly seeks to help students toward the end of their graduate careers gain experience and make contacts important to their intellectual and professional development and to their job prospects. However, the Fellowship Committee will hold aside a certain amount of funding for students presenting original work at prestigious conferences early in their careers (e.g., before advancing to candidacy). 

Preference will be given to students who have not had an ARHU Travel Award in the past, unless it was an early career award. Awards will not be given for travel that has already taken place. 

These applications must be entered on time into the online system to be considered for the current cycle. The online application system will close at midnight on each of the three deadline dates below. 

College deadlines (for students and departments to submit materials online):

• Round 1: Monday, October 2, 2017 (for travel taking place between October 1, 2017 and December 3, 2017) 
• Round 2: Monday, December 4, 2017 (for travel taking place between December 4, 2017 to May 6, 2018) 
• Round 3: Monday, May 7, 2018 (for travel taking place between May 7, 2018 to September 30, 2018) 

Please check with the individual program graduate director about departmental deadlines. 

The application process for Travel Awards is entirely online. No paper applications will be accepted. 

The application process is easy: 

Students should go to http://apply.arhu.umd.edu and click on Travel Awards, provide all the supporting information, and submit the application. (Students can work on an application, save, and come back to the site as well, so they don’t have to do everything at once). 

The supporting information requested is as follows: 

• Short CV (including up-to-date contact information and address)

• Letter of application including:

• Stage of graduate career (e.g., defending dissertation in Fall 2016)
• Brief description (no more than two paragraphs) of the research to be presented, its significance in the field, and the format of the presentation (e.g. paper on a panel, poster presentation). Please keep in mind that the research should be contextualized for non-specialists.
• Brief description of the conference and its organizing body, including the url of the conference/organization website. Include a statement of the review process for the accepted research.
• Statement of the contribution the conference will make to your career.
• Statement of whether application has been made for this trip to other funding sources (e.g. Goldhaber Travel Awards from the Graduate School).  Students are encouraged to apply for outside funding.
• Budget of estimated costs
• Copy of the letter/email accepting/inviting the presentation

If you encounter any technical problems using the online system, please contact Megan Weng.  https://apply.arhu.umd.edu/contact

If you have questions about the Travel Awards themselves, or if your students have questions, please contact Trevor Parry-Giles, 301-641-0019 or tpg@umd.edu. 

The Arts and Humanities Center for Synergy will start accepting accepting DRIF proposals for the 2017-18 academic year Monday, September 18, 2017. Please see the Call for DRIF Proposals for more information.

Tenure-Track and Professional-Track Faculty are eligible to apply.  We offer three different funding categories that are in keeping with the Center for Synergy’s interdisciplinary and engaged research goals. A limited amount of subvention funds is also available for the reproduction of images for book publication. In addition, we offer funding in support of applications to the Division of Research Faculty Incentive Program Tier I Seed Grants. The vast majority of conference grants are awarded in the fall. There is only a small amount awarded for conference proposals in the spring cycle. Conference proposals should only be submitted in the spring cycle if the timelines of the conference requires you to apply then. New Directions Innovation Seed Grants are only awarded in the fall.  

Funded initiatives will be those that promise to promote interdisciplinary research and scholarship and/or enhance links to and engagement in the community beyond the campus. Due to budget constraints, priority will be given to requests from units that are not currently receiving operational funding from the Dean’s office. 

To submit a proposal, please log-on with your UMD directory ID and password to the College of Arts and Humanities Online Applications System which can be found at https://apply.arhu.umd.edu. There you can select the appropriate application and fill in the fields, upload your project description and submit when complete. You can save a draft of your application to submit at a later time, if necessary. Only one submission can be accepted per person per application so please make sure all applications are complete and fit the call before submitting. All applications for the fall cycle must be submitted electronically by 5 pm on Friday, October 13, 2017. 

We encourage everyone to apply! If you have any questions, please contact Linda Aldoory, Associate Dean for Research and Programming, at laldoory@umd.edu.