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Exploratory Travel Award for PhD students

Type: Awards, Grants, Fellowships [View all]
Posted by: Thoma Foundation
Deadline: Tue, March 15th, 2022

The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation is pleased to offer travel awards of up to $5,000 to PhD students to travel to Latin America to visit archives, museums, and art collections and connect with local scholars.

Exploratory Travel Awards enable students to develop viable and innovative research projects for future application to pre-doctoral fellowships including the Marilynn Thoma Pre-doctoral Fellowship in Art of the Spanish Americas.

The Exploratory Travel Award is intended to fund travel of 1-2 months in Latin America as preparation for more extensive archival and collections-based research in the future.  Applicants must be enrolled in an accredited PhD program. This funding is intended only for early career PhD students; for example, in Europe this generally refers to students in their first year of study and in the United States this means pre-candidacy.

Students whose institutions offer similar preliminary travel funding are not eligible for the award. Individuals in Europe and Latin America, where comparable sources of external funding are less available, are strongly encouraged to apply.

As with other Thoma Foundation awards and fellowships for individuals, the Exploratory Travel Award is intended for projects that will contribute to the study of the Art of the Spanish Americas (roughly 16th-19th c.).

 Projects will be considered from all areas of Latin America and the Caribbean; however, the Foundation will give preference to projects that make specific contributions to the history of painting and sculpture in viceregal South America.

Applications can be found here.

 Application deadline: 15 March
Notification: 15 April

Posted on Mon, March 14th, 2022
Expires on Tue, March 15th, 2022

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