WSU - Humanities

PURPOSE
The Humanities Center wishes to encourage graduate students in the Humanities and the Arts to present their research or artistic work at national conferences and exhibitions.

ELIGIBILITY
All graduate students in the humanities, arts, or related disciplines. Students outside of the traditional humanities should demonstrate that their proposed presentations have significant humanistic or artistic content. The applicant must be the sole presenter, or the principal presenter in a group presentation. In the latter case, only one student will be funded from the group. Only one student per department will be funded to go to a particular conference. We will no longer fund students participating in graduate
student conferences.

FUNDING
The Center will budget up to $3,000 in the 2008-2009 academic year to support this program. In an effort to spread this funding across the full academic year, the Center will now budget $1,200 for the Fall Semester, $1,200 for the Winter Semester and $600 for the Spring/Summer Semester. Each award recipient will be funded up to $300 for travel to conferences or exhibitions held nationally or internationally between September 1, 2008 and August 15, 2009.

GUIDELINES
There is no application form. Each applicant must submit the following before attending the conference:
1. A cover letter including the student’s department affiliation, a mailing address and e-mail address, the name and location of the conference to be attended and the dates on which he/she will travel.
2. Evidence that his or her paper/artwork has been accepted by the conference or exhibition. This should take the form of a letter or e-mail to the student from the conference/organizers.
3. An abstract of the paper to be presented or description of the work to be exhibited.
4. A short personal statement indicating the significance of this presentation to the student’s future professional career.
5. An itemized estimated budget including, if applicable, financial support from other units.
6. A letter from the student’s advisor in support of his/her application

DEADLINES:

September 15, 2008 for Fall 2008
December 15, 2008 for Winter 2009
April 15, 2009 for Spring/Summer 2009

REVIEW
Applications will be reviewed by a committee from the Humanities Center. Decisions will be communicated promptly to applicants.

Applications should be sent to:

The Humanities Center
Attn: Walter F. Edwards, Director
2226 Faculty/Administration Bldg.
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI 48202

Bolded statements have been updated from last year's requirements. Please refer to the menu to the left for the 2008-2009 flier or previous recipients.