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Conference Travel Funding
UIUC Graduate College Conference Presentatoin Award
The Grad College’s Conference Presentation Award offers funds to assist grad students giving a presentation at a professional conference (either in-person or online). For in-person conferences, awards will help cover travel expenses. For online conferences, awards will help cover registration fees. Awards are available only to those students who are making a presentation at the conference. Students attending a conference without giving a presentation are ineligible.
Applications are submitted to the Anth grad contact, joyce14@illinois.edu by the department deadline, so that materials can be compiled for the financial aid committee to begin their selection process. Students must be registered and in good academic standing during both the term the application is submitted AND the term during which the conference takes place.
Please include the information listed below:
1. Completed form: conferencepresentationaward-studentapp.pdf (illinois.edu)
2. A narrative proposal of one page, using 12-point type and one-inch margins. The proposal should describe the significance of the paper or presentation you will be giving, in terms understandable to a non-specialist. Please clarify your stage in the doctoral process and discuss why you would benefit from attending and presenting your research at this particular conference at this particular stage in your graduate training. Explain the context of your conference presentation: Please indicate if you are organizing a session and/or presenting a paper or poster. If you are presenting a paper or poster, is it part of a volunteered or invited session, a presidential session, etc.? Please briefly discuss the significance of this conference for the field. In writing your proposal, remember that you are writing for an audience that includes scholars both from other subfields of anthropology, and (if your proposal is forwarded to the Grad. College) from other disciplines beyond anthropology.
3. Abstract of the paper or presentation you will give at the conference.
4. Current curriculum vitae
5. Grad contact will provide your unofficial transcript
Please see link for more details: Conference Presentation Awards for Graduate Students | The Graduate College at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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