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AHAA Special Travel Grants

In response to cutbacks in travel funds due to the difficult economy, this year AHAA is offering two special travel grants of $750 each for research or to attend a conference. The two grant recipients for 2010 are: Samantha Baskind, Associate Professor of Art History, Cleveland State University. She will attend the Association for Jewish Studies 42nd Annual Conference in Boston in December, 2010 to present her paper, "Beatified But Not Canonized: Jewish Artists and the American Art Canon." Laura Smith, Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History, Michigan State University. She will go on a research trip to Oklahoma this summer in support of her book on the early photographs of Kiowa photographer Horace Poolaw, to be published by University of Nebraska Press.

 

Travel Grant for the CAA Annual Meeting

AHAA offers a grant for CAA conference expenses up to $500 for an ABD student of the historical art of the United States who is currently enrolled in a graduate program and who will travel to CAA's annual conference to appear on the meeting program.

Letters of application must be submitted by e-mail and must reach AHAA by February 1, 2011 and the winner will be announced at the AHAA Business Meeting at the CAA conference in Chicago. The letter of application should include the applicant's paper and session title as they will appear on the program.The winner of the AHAA Conference Grant, who must be a member of AHAA as of the conference, will be reimbursed up to $500.00 (receipts will be necessary for payment) for transportation (including parking), housing, and CAA conference registration fees. All qualified candidates will be entered into a lottery, and the winner selected at random. All applicants will be notified using the email address on the letter of application after February 1, 2011. Address Letter of Application to Melissa Dabakis, AHAA Secretary and Professor, Art History Department, Kenyon College.

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2007 AHAA Travel Grant Recipient: Wendy Ikemoto, Harvard University

2008 AHAA Travel Grant Recipient: Holly Markowitz, Boston University

2009 AHAA Travel Grant Recipient: Elisa Schaar, Oxford University (UK)

2010 AHAA Travel Grant Recipient: Anthony Morris, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland