Travel Awards

The following are winners of travel awards for the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies.

Congress Travel Award

• Arnisha Ashraf, presenting "Women and Marriage Alliances: Exploring Gender, Power, and the Politics Behind the 'Female Body'" in the session "Mothers as Makers: The Role of Women in Medieval Politics (2): High to Late Middle Ages"
• Farooq Hassan, presenting "Exchanges and Interactions between the Early Islamic Community and the Byzantine World" in the session "Byzantine Engagement with Islam: Actors, Sources, and Their Impact on the Western View of Islam"
• Md. Azharrul Haque Mallick, presenting "Foreign Encounters, Native Concerns: The Impact of European Travelers on Medieval Indian History and Urdu Scholarship" in the session "Reconceptions of European Literary History (1): How Do We Study Historical Text Traditions?"

Archibald Cason Edwards, Senior, and Sarah Stanley Gordon Edwards Memorial Travel Award

• Baylee Woodley, presenting "Too Femme to Function? Exploring the Role of Queer Fem(me)ininities in Constructing the Non-Human in Late Medieval Visual Culture" in the session "Queer(ing) Medieval Art (2): New Horizons"
• Sarah Dyer Magleby, presenting "The Inventoried Home: Utilizing Archival Sources to Reconstruct the Turquam-Gilles Household in Late Medieval Paris" in the session "Women, Objects, and Space (1)" 

Otto Gründler Travel Award

• Polina Ignatova, presenting "Undying Love: Sharing a Bed with a Restless Corpse" in the session "Romancing the Monster" 

Kathryn N. Karrer Travel Award

• Grace O'Duffy, presenting "The Rapist, the Hero and the Rapist, the Villain in Old Norse Literature" in the session "Theorizing Sexual Consent: Medieval/Modern"
• Selenay Aydin, presenting "Shaping the 'Other': Turkish-Italian Relations in the Late Medieval Mediterranean" in the session "Identity and Otherness in the Medieval Mediterranean (2): Italy, Byzantium, and the Levant"

David R. Tashjian Travel Award

• Alexia Kirov, presenting "'Gang ūt!' Healing in Old Saxon and Old English Medical Charms" in the session "Studies in Old Saxon (1)"

The deadline for applications for all travel awards is Nov. 1. Applicants will be considered for all awards for which they are eligible. Applicants must submit the following:

• A single-page abstract of the paper to be presented at the Congress.
• Full text of the paper to be presented, which may not exceed 12 pages, double-spaced (A4 or 8.5 x 11 in. paper).
• A curriculum vitae, including current employment status and a complete current postal address.
• Two letters of support, one of which must be from the sponsored or special session organizer. For current graduate students, the second letter must be from their dissertation supervisor or another academic advisor.

Congress Travel Awards

The Congress Travel Awards are available to participants giving papers on any aspect of medieval studies in Sponsored and Special Sessions. The intention of these awards is to support scholars from regions of the world underrepresented at past Congresses, graduate students, and scholars without institutional support. There are three awards: one aware of $500, plus waiver of registration and room and board fees, and two awards that waive registration and room and board fees. 

Edwards Memorial Travel Awards

The Archibald Cason Edwards, Senior and Sarah Stanley Gordon Edwards Memorial Travel Awards are available to emerging scholars who are presenting papers on European medieval art in Sponsored or Special Sessions. There are four awards: $500, plus waiver of registration and room and board fees.

Gründler Travel Award

The Otto Gründler Travel Award is available to participants giving papers on any aspect of medieval studies in Sponsored or Special Sessions. Preference is given to Congress participants from central European nations. There is one award: $500, plus waiver of registration and room and board fees. 

Karrer Travel Awards

The Kathryn M. Karrer Travel Awards are available to students enrolled in a graduate program in any field at the time of application who are presenting papers in Sponsored and Special Sessions. There are two awards: $250, plus waiver of registration and room and board fees.

Tashjian Travel Awards

The Richard Rawlinson Center offers the David R. Tashjian Travel Awards to participants giving papers on topics in the culture and history of early medieval England in Sponsored and Special Sessions. Eligibility is limited to scholars from outside North America and to scholars from North America without access to institutional funding. There are two awards: $500, plus waiver of registration and room and board fees.