The Madonna Marsden International Travel Grants

The Endowment for the Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association announces the availability of 10 international travel grants @ $500 each to presenters traveling internationally to give presentations for the national PCA/ACA conference being held in Boston, Massachusetts at the Boston Marriott Copley Place, April 4-7, 2007.
Applicants can be either faculty or M.A. or Ph.D., level students, and must be traveling from a country other than the U.S. to qualify. Graduate students will be given primary consideration. Applicants should complete the application process detailed below and submit it electronically to (ashley.seewald@snc.edu) by no later than December 31, 2006.  (Graduate students may apply for either this international travel grant or for the Rollins-Schoenecke travel grants, but not for both.)
Proposals will be evaluated on: 1. quality of the paper’s thesis and scope, 2. extent to which the paper reflects and contributes to the study of Popular Culture Studies and/or American Culture Studies, and 3. the extent to which the paper reflects the applicant’s future professional goals. Decisions will be reached by the end of January, 2007 and the results communicated electronically. Successful applicants will find their award checks in their registration packets in Boston.

These travel grants are named after the late Madonna Marsden, a teacher/scholar/writer/editor who was part of the Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association from their formative years and throughout her career.

 

Application Process for Madonna Marsden International Travel Grants

Name:

Home Address:

Email:

College or University Affiliation:

(For Graduate Students Only) Name & Email Address of Graduate Advisor/Director of Graduate Studies:

Title of Accepted Paper/Presentation:

Please provide an essay of no more than 250 words discussing the thesis and scope of your paper/presentation, how it reflects on and contributes to the study of Popular Culture Studies and/or American Culture Studies, and how it reflects your future professional goals. Please forward verification from your Area Chair that your paper/presentation has been accepted for the 2007 national meeting as well.