Graduate Student Travel Awards

Each year, the Islamic Studies Program offers awards to support graduate student travel to conferences or for field and archival work. The program usually offers a limited number of competitive awards each grant cycle. Award amounts vary and depend upon our budget. Travel awardees are selected based on need and relevance of the project to Islamic Studies (broadly defined).

All graduate students in good standing at IU Bloomington are eligible and encouraged to apply, although preference will be given to doctoral students. The Program requests that award recipients acknowledge our support in any product of their research, if applicable.

The deadline for the Spring 2020 funding cycle is March 18, 2020. Please click here for an application form.

AY18-19 Recipients

Twenty graduate students received funding. They are students in Anthropology, Art History, Central Eurasian Studies, Education, Folklore and Ethnomusicology, History, Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, Political Science, and Religious Studies.

AY17-18 Recipients

Sixteen graduate students received funding. They are students in Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Folklore and Ethnomusicology, History, Linguistics, Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, Political Science, and Religious Studies.

AY16-17 Recipients

Twelve graduate students received funding. They are students in Central Eurasian Studies, Folklore and Ethnomusicology, History, Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, Religious Studies, the Russian & East European Institute, and the School of Education.

AY15-16 Recipients

Eight graduate students received funding. They are students in Central Eurasian Studies, History, Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, Religious Studies, and the School of Education.