NCPH Graduate Student Travel Awards

Student Project Award

The $500 travel grant to attend the 2024 Annual Meeting recognizes the contributions of student work to the field of public history.

Student Travel Award

Five travel grants of up to $300 each for graduate students presenting (session, poster session, or working group) at the 2024 Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah.

STUDENT PROJECT AWARD

2024 Award Winner

Bring Back 6th Mobile Museum, Jade Ryerson, Jessie Merriam, Angel Swann, Ayaan Natala, Carissa Thomas, and Hibaa Roba, University of Minnesota

2024 Submission Guidelines

This award recognizes the contributions of student work to the field of public history. The student author(s) of the winning entry will receive a travel grant ($500) at the awards breakfast to help underwrite attendance at the NCPH annual meeting (in 2024 the meeting will be in Salt Lake City, Utah). Award winners receive complimentary registration for the awards breakfast.

Eligibility

To be eligible for consideration, an applicant or nominee must meet the following criteria:

The project must be the work of one or more students enrolled in a public history program at the time the project was completed, and have been completed within the two academic years preceding the date of submission.
The project must have been initiated as academic coursework, then subsequently have been recognized beyond the classroom as a contribution to public history. (Examples: a class assignment exhibit design later installed as a public display; an oral history project accessioned into an established oral history collection; historic preservation research accepted as a working document by a preservation agency).
The sponsoring faculty member or academic institution must be a member of NCPH.

Submission Process

Submit a two- to three-page written description of the project explaining how the project advanced your understanding of public history, how it advanced the institution, and how the project moved the needle for the field. Your description should also include the methods you used and conclusions drawn, as well as the project’s significance for public history.

Please also include:

Appropriate supporting materials, such as written text, graphics, photographs, audio/video tapes, printed materials, links, recordings, etc.
Evidence of public impact or evaluation, such as article reviews or collected feedback forms.

Endorsements must include the following:

A letter from the project’s faculty sponsor, explaining the relationship of the project to the student(s) coursework, evaluating the project as a contribution to public history, and verifying the applicant’s status as a full-time student at the time the project was undertaken.
A letter from the institution, which accepted the project, explaining the relationship between the institution and the student(s) and how the project helped to advance the institution’s public history mission.

Fill out the form with the nominee’s information. (Nominations are closed for 2024; a link will be provided when nominations open for 2025)
The form includes a file upload for your CV or resume and a file upload for supplemental material (your written narrative, endorsements, and any additional material); all supplemental materials must be uploaded in one Word document or PDF. The completed form will be sent to each of the Student Project Award Committee members and to the NCPH executive office.

If you have any physical material that must be sent (such as a book, DVD, etc.) please mention it in the “Shipping Information” section of the form and send it to each of the committee members and the NCPH executive office at:

NCPH
127 Cavanaugh Hall – IUPUI
425 University Blvd.
Indianapolis, IN 46202
[email protected]

Notification will be sent to award winners in late January 2024. This award includes a free ticket to the awards breakfast, so graduate students who plan to apply for this award should refrain from registering for this event until notification is received regarding the status of the application. Notification will be given prior to the deadline for early conference registration.

Submissions must be received (not postmarked) no later than December 1, 2023. Late submissions will not be considered. Please note that materials will not be returned.

Questions? [email protected]; (317) 274-2716

A challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities makes possible our expanding awards program and other uses of earned income on the NCPH endowment. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this website do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

GRADUATE STUDENT TRAVEL AWARD

2024 Winners

Dalena Collins, Duquesne University
Katherine C. Hughes, Center for Historic Preservation at Middle Tennessee State University
Arturo Perez Lopez, Arizona State University
Bri Matson, University of Colorado Denver
Marcus Smith, University of Massachusetts Amherst

2024 Submission Guidelines

The Graduate Student Travel Award provides assistance with conference travel costs for graduate student members who have a paper, poster, or other presentation accepted for inclusion in the program of the NCPH annual meeting. Five travel awards of $300 each will be given annually. In addition, each travel award winner will receive a complimentary ticket to the award breakfast. All currently-enrolled graduate students who have had presentations accepted for the meeting are invited to apply for the award by submitting a short form, including a travel budget, along with a copy of the conference presentation abstract, a c.v., and narrative. Proof of current enrollment will be required.

Election will be based primarily on the merit of the planned presentation. No student may win more than one travel award during the tenure of his or her graduate program. Winners will be encouraged, though not required, to seek matching funds from their home institutions.

Award decisions will be made by the NCPH Student Project and Travel Awards Committee. Recipients will receive a check and a certificate during the awards breakfast at the annual meeting.*

Eligibility Requirements

Applicants must have had a paper, poster, or other presentation accepted for inclusion in the program of the NCPH annual meeting for which they seek a travel award. Students applying for a poster session may submit a travel award application (both are due by December 1) with the understanding that their travel award application will be considered only if their poster session proposal is accepted. Please do not submit a combined poster and travel award proposal. Submit each separately.
The paper, poster, or presentation abstract must be of exceptional quality.
Applicants must be a current member of NCPH.
Applicants must be a currently-enrolled MA or PhD student doing research and/or practice that is recognizably public history.
Applicants must not have received an NCPH Travel Award in the past.

Submission Process

Fill out this form with the nominee’s information. (Nominations are closed for 2024; a link will be provided when nominations open for 2025)
The form includes a file upload for your CV or resume and a file upload for supplemental material (described below); all supplemental materials must be uploaded in one Word document or PDF. The completed form will be sent to each of the Student Travel Award Committee members and to the NCPH executive office.

A complete application consists of:

Completed application form
Copy of the abstract submitted for the annual meeting regular session or poster session
Copy of applicant’s CV/resume including the following information: education, honors/awards, publications, and public history research and/or experience
A narrative of no more than 500 words that addresses/clarifies the following:
- the original contribution the applicant will make to the session or poster
- the specific argument the applicant will be posing in the session or poster
- the significance of the applicant’s original contribution to the field of public history, broadly defined
- a brief narrative explaining financial need
- includes a signature from your department chair or advisor

*Notification will be sent to award winners in late January 2024. This award includes a free ticket to the awards breakfast, so graduate students who plan to apply for the travel awards should refrain from registering for this event until notification is received regarding the status of the application. Notification will be given prior to the deadline for early conference registration.

Submissions must be received no later than December 1, 2023. Late submissions will not be considered.

Questions? [email protected]; (317) 274-2716

Past Student Award Winners

2023

No project award submissions; funds reallocated to additional travel awards
Travel Award: Emma Awe, Carleton University; Natalie Coté, George Washington University; Paige Figanbaum, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Hannah LeComte, Duquesne University; JoCora Moore, North Carolina State University; Kristyn Scorsone, Rutgers University-Newark; Abigail Thomsen, University of Massachusetts Amherst

2022

Project Award: History for the Future: How Can Histories of Mutual Aid Help Us Build Radical Futures?, Acoma Gaither and Andrea Manolov, University of Minnesota
Travel Award: Monica El-Amin, University of West Georgia; John Flynn, University of Utah; Cheyenne Grimes, IUPUI; Madeline Hellmich, IUPUI; Saskia Lascarez Casanova, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

2021

Project Award: Integration: Women in the Canadian Air Force, Camas Clowater-Eriksson, Carleton University
- Honorable Mention: Reading Frederick Douglass Together and Rage, Fragility, & Antiracism, Keidrick Roy, Harvard University
Travel Award: Lydia Biallas, Appalachian State University; Sarah Anne Maske, University of North Carolina Greensboro; Aubrey Parke, Duquesne University; Stephanie Townrow, University of Delaware

2020

Project Award: #MeToo in Minnesota History, Paige Mitchell, University of Minnesota
Travel Award: Megan Crutcher, Duquesne University; Ari Green, California State University, Sacramento; Lindsay Mulcahy, University of Southern California; Erika Slocumb, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Carlie N. Todd, University of South Carolina

2019

Project Award: Owning Up: Racism and Housing in Minneapolis, Kacie Lucchini Butcher and Denise Pike, University of Minnesota
- Honorable Mention – An Extraordinary Look into Ordinary Lives: Uncovering Dorchester’s Industrial School for Girls, 1859-1880, Sarah Black, University of Massachusetts Boston
Travel Award: Nichelle Frank, University of Oregon; Holly Genovese, University of Texas at Austin; Daniel Milowski, Arizona State University; Heather Stanfiel, University of Notre Dame; Jackie Swihart, IUPUI

2018

Project Award: Making History: Kansas City and the Rise of Gay Rights, Taylor C. Bye, Kathryn B. Carpenter, Samantha Hollingsworth, Leah Palmer, Kevin Ploth, and Jennifer Tufts, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Travel Award: Melissa Barthelemy, University of California, Santa Barbara; Aaron Hollis, West Virginia University; Nora Kassner, University of California, Santa Barbara; Hope Shannon, Loyola University Chicago; GVGK Tang, Temple University

2017

Project Award: The Chrysler Village History Project, Rachel Boyle, Chelsea Denault, Maggie McClain, and Kelly Schmidt, Loyola University Chicago
Travel Award: Aiden M. Bettine, DePaul University; Chris Fite, University of Pennsylvania; Cheryl Jiménez Frei, University of California, Santa Barbara; Leslie J. Leonard, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Harvee White, University of West Georgia

2016

Project Award: “Wearing Gay History,” Eric Nolan Gonzaba, George Mason University
- Honorable Mention: “Black at Bryn Mawr,” Emma Kioko and Grace Pusey, Bryn Mawr College
Travel Award: Pamela Y. Curtin, West Virginia University; Hannah Givens, University of West Georgia; Julie Peterson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Kristen Rund, Arizona State University; Cane West, University of Carolina-Columbia

2015

Project Award: “The Lost Museum,” Lily Benedict, Elizabeth Crawford Kathrinne Duffy, Sophia LaCava-Bohanan, Jessica Palinski, Rebecca Soules, and Jamie Topper, Brown University; Raina Belleau, Layla Eshan, and Kristen Orr, Rhode Island School of Design
- Honorable Mention: “Push and Pull: Eastern European and Russian Migration to the Cape Fear Region,” Beth Bullock, Jayd Buteaux, and Leslie Randle-Morton, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Travel Award: Erin Benard, Temple University; Ashley Rose Creegan, West Virginia University; Emily Pipes, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Nicolette Rohr, University of California, Riverside; and Jennifer Whitmer Taylor, University of South Carolina

2014

Project Award: Caitlin R. (Sjaarda) Phillips, “Painting Sites Trail Guide, Central Connecticut State University/Weir Farm National Historic Site”
Travel Award: Jeff Corrigan, University of Missouri; Emily Hopkins, Cooperstown Graduate Program, SUNY Oneonta; Lauren Mojkowski, University of South Carolina; Laura Pearce, Loyola University Chicago; Hannah Schmidl, Arizona State

2013

Project Award: Sarah Cloutier, Ellen Kuhn, Shawna Prather, and Ashley Wyatt, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, “The Terra Cotta Community History Project”
Travel Award: Laura Arata, Washington State University; Celia James, University of South Carolina; Laura Keller, Arizona State University; Amanda Noll, University of South Carolina; Megan Southern, University of South Carolina

2012

Project Award: Erica Hague and Jennifer Clark Scott, University of North Carolina-Wilimington-“Flashback: Community Life through the Lens of Mack Munn, 1940-1960”
- Honorable Mention: Michelle Antenesse and Bethany Girod, California State University, Fullerton-“New Birth of Freedom: Civil War to Civil Rights in California“
Travel Award: Kate Freedman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Jordan Grant, American University; Jee-Yeon (Jay) Kim, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Evan Medley, Arizona State University; and Maggie Schreiner, New York University

2011

Project Award: Morgan Hubbard, University of Massachusetts Amherst – “Uncertain Futures: Americans and Science Fiction in the Early Cold War Era, 1945-1965” Exhibit
Travel Award: Charlotte Egerton, UNC-Wilmington; Paula Hunt, University of Missouri-Columbia; Sarah McCormick, University of California Riverside); Angela Sirna, West Virginia University; and Joan Frangaszy Troyano, George Washington University

2010

Project Award: Rachael Binning, Elizabeth Manekin, and Aliza Schiff, Brown University-“Faces of Fox Point: A Community History Project”
- Honorable Mention: Miriam Farris, Christopher Jordan, and Ethan Moore, University of North Carolina at Greensboro-“Threads in Greensboro’s Past”
Travel Award:Susan Ashley, York University; Jennifer Carpenter, University of Maryland College Park; Miriam Farris, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Tyler DeWayne Moore, Middle Tennessee State University; and Ashley Whitehead, West Virginia University

2009

Hannah Howard and Kristen Foster, University of North Carolina Charlotte – “History at Light Speed: Discovering Charlotte’s Northeast Corridor”

2008

Santi Thompson, University of South Carolina–“The LGBTQ Archive at the South Caroliniana Library”

2007

Amy Canfield, Chris Allan, Cara Kaser, Marc Entze, George Means, Lee O’Connor, and Susan Schultz, Washington State University–“Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Park Assessments”

2006

Amanda Jones, Bethany Natali, and Nancy Germano, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis–“Cultural Heritage Trail Project: The West Street Corridor”

2005

John Cristiansen, Rebekah Dobrasko, and Beth Wiedower, University of South Carolina–Richmond Railway Station Project, North Yorkshire, England

2004

Deena Booth, Lara Cullinane-Smith, Jennifer Dickey, Laura Drummond, Jeffrey Jensen, Linda Orr King, Sabrina Meneghello, Rachel Quartarone, Andrew Reisinger, Laurie Sedicino, Beth Watson, and Erin Whittemore, Georgia State University–the interpretive history exhibition, “Rich’s: The Store That Married a City”

2003

Ben Baughman, Steve Biljan, Michael Brown, Matthew Hansbury, Jeffrey Johnson, Jon Middaugh, Caureen Miller, Gwen Pattison, Steve Shay, and Bryce Spencer, Washington State University–Campbell House Interpretive Program in co-operation with Washington State University and the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture