SSHA-Rockefeller Graduate Student Travel Awards

The SSHA-Rockefeller Graduate Student Travel Awards will be given to up to thirty graduate students who are presenting papers or posters at the 2008 SSHA Annual Meeting.  Students whose paper or poster has non-student co-authors are not eligible.  To be considered for these travel awards, students must complete the application form.  The awards will be based on the quality of the application, and will be announced late summer 2008.
The award carries a cash prize of $300 (for North American winners) or $500 (for winners residing outside of North America). The awards will be presented at the plenary Business Meeting and Presidential Address on Saturday, October 25 , 2008.
Students should apply for the awards below; they also must have submitted conference proposals to the program committee, as part of the regular process, by the appropriate deadline (including proposal title, abstract, and list of all co-authors). The award application must include the following information:

• Name of applicant
• Institution and Department
• Postal address
• E-mail address
• Confirmation of graduate student status
• Confirmation that proposal includes no non-student co-authors

Applications will be judged by a committee appointed by the President of the Association.

Applications are being accepted at the Conference Submission Site.
The application submission form may be accessed by clicking on the link above.

SSHA-Rockefeller Graduate Student Travel Awards are sponsored by the Social Science History Association and the Rockefeller Archive Center.

The Rockefeller Archive Center, a division of The Rockefeller University, was established in 1974 to assemble, process, and make available for scholarly research the papers of the Rockefeller family and the records of various philanthropic and educational institutions founded by the family, including The Rockefeller University, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. The Center has recently begun to collect non-Rockefeller philanthropic records, including the archives of the Commonwealth Fund, the Culpeper Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the John and Mary Markle Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council. Subjects covered in these archives include agriculture, the arts, African-American history, education, international relations and economic development, labor, medicine, philanthropy, politics, population, religion, the social sciences, social welfare, and women's history.