OAH-IEHS John Higham Travel Grants

The current competition is now closed. Updated information will be available by May 2013.

Travel grants are awarded to three (3) graduate students each year to be used toward costs of attending the OAH/IEHS Annual Meeting. The successful candidates will have a preferred area of concentration in American Immigration and/or American Ethnic and/or American Intellectual history. The grants are given in memory of John Higham (1920–2003), past president of both organizations and a towering figure in immigration, ethnic, and intellectual history. Thanks to the generosity of William L. and Carol B. Joyce, the OAH and IEHS are pleased to continue offering this program.

Recipients will be notified after February 1, 2013. Grant will be given to student when s/he attends the 2013 OAH-IEHS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, April 11–14.

Application Process

Qualifications:

Minimum preferred: ABD

Required Information:

• • current and permanent addresses
• • educational background
• • degrees achieved and expected
• • current institution attending
• • current status
• • travel funds from other sources
• • publications and papers presented

Travel Funding

Applicants will need to indicate if other travel monies will be made available.

Required Statement

Applicants will be required to include a short statement of no more than 500 words about how they envision attending the annual meeting will help prepare them for a career in history.

Additional Considerations

The committee will seek some balance by gender, region of country, and type of university (e.g., major research university and second tier).

The final decision will be made by the OAH-IEHS John Higham Travel Grants Committee by February 1, 2013. The winner will be provided with details regarding the OAH Annual Meeting and the IEHS dinner, where the grants will be presented. Each recipient will also receive a certificate.

One complete copy of each application, clearly labeled “2013 OAH-IEHS John Higham Travel Grants,” must be mailed directly to each committee member listed below. Each committee member must receive all applications by December 3, 2012.

Dominic A. Pacyga (Committee Chair)
10123 South Wood Street
Chicago, IL 60643
[Affiliation: Columbia College Chicago]

Julio Capó, Jr.
Department of History
Herter Hall 728
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
161 Presidents Drive
Amherst, MA 01003-9312

Andrew K. Sandoval–Strausz
Department of History
MSC06 3760
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1181

DEADLINE: DECEMBER 3, 2012

List of Past Winners