Student awards

Graduate Student Conference Bursary For The 2023 American Studies Association Meeting

The Centre for the Study of the United States at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy is pleased to announce the 2023-2024 bursary competition for the 2023 ASA meeting in Montreal.

Deadline: October 13, 2023

Eligibility and Terms: 

Must be enrolled as a Graduate Student in good standing (PhD or Master's level) at University of Toronto.

Applications Must Include:

• Provide CV.
• Write a letter up to one page in length outlining your interest in attending the 2023 American Studies Association meeting in Montreal and your overall interest in American Studies. Include information about the conference funding you have available to you through your own Department.

Award:

$500 conference bursary for travel expenses related to the 2024 ASA meeting in Montreal.

Submission of Application:

Emailed applications will be accepted as a single pdf file to the director, Professor Rick Halpern, at rick.halpern@utoronto.ca with a cc to csus@utoronto.ca by October 13, 2023.

For additional information, please contact Professor Halpern: rick.halpern@utoronto.ca

The Graduate Research Grant competition

This competition is open to University of Toronto graduate students who have matriculated into a PhD program, to support research undertaken for their dissertation. Students in all disciplines are encouraged to apply. At least two grants will be awarded in the amount of $1,500 each, to be used primarily for research travel (in limited instances funds may be applied to presentations at major academic conferences.)

Recipients will be expected to present on an aspect of their research in a CSUS graduate student workshop. Awards will be announced within one month of the application deadline, and the grants will be available within one month thereafter. 

Applications must include: 

• Summary sheet stating the applicant's name, address, phone, and e-mail; department; year entering department; proposed dissertation title; the name of the faculty committee members (and their departments), if relevant; and proposed use of funds. 

• A summary (approx. 500 words) of the research project. This statement should explain the project's relationship to either the interdisciplinary field of American Studies and/or to the study of the United States. 

• A current CV. 

• A detailed budget describing how the research funds would be spent. 

Applications re-open in the spring.

Graduate student workshops

Graduate Research Grant recipients and other selected applicants are invited to present on an aspect of their research at a graduate student workshop. 

Research Fellows are limited to current Assistant and Associate Professors at the University of Toronto. Their research interests should be related to the study of the United States, broadly conceived. Research Fellows will be asked to coordinate a public research event or series of events, with the Centre's assistance. These events will be available to coordinate and to aid in procuring additional resources, if needed. 

Fellows will receive a stipend of $10,000 to support the costs of the research event. In exceptional cases, where external research funding has already been secured, the stipend may be used towards course release, conditional upon approval of the Fellow's home-department chair. 

Applications must include: 

1. A current CV. 
2. A brief description of their current research interests (approx. 500 words). 
3. A description of a public research event they propose to mount as part of the fellowship, including a tentative budget. 

Emailed applications will be accepted as a single pdf file to the director, Professor Nicholas Sammond, at csus.director@utoronto.ca and please copy the CSUS Program Coordinator at: csus@utoronto.ca by May 31st, 2023.