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The Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction is pleased to announce inaugural prizes to promote research and to recognize exceptional scholarship on the subject of global interactions from the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries. FEEGI is a membership organization that fosters scholarly inquiry into the world-wide consequences of maritime and overland expansion in a period of significant transformation. FEEGI encourage scholarship and collaboration across the boundaries of national histories and disciplinary frameworks.
FEEGI prizes recognize both exemplary and path-breaking work in the area of cross-cultural or trans-regional investigations of the early-modern past, broadly construed. Only members of FEEGI are eligible for these prizes. To join FEEGI, go to http://feegi.org/membership.htm
Research Travel Award
Recognizing the significant material and financial challenges inherent in multi-sited studies, FEEGI will award an annual research grant of $1000 to support travel to archival or other field sites. This award is open to all FEEGI members but is intended especially for graduate students, independent scholars, and scholars at the beginning of their careers.
To apply for the 2013 research grant please submit the following materials by February 1, 2013:
1) A short cv
2) A 500-750 word page project description. Your proposal should include a justification of the importance of the project, a plan of work with a timetable for research and a plan of work, including a timetable, nature of research to be conducted, and mention of venues to be visited. Applicants should also explain the intended results of the research
3) A budget which includes an explanation of how you will spend the grant funds.
Materials should be gathered into a single file and sent electronically to:
David Hancock, University of Michigan (Chair) (hancockd@umich.edu)
Marjoleine Kars, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (kars@umbc.edu)
Carla Rahn Phillips, University of Minnesota (phill002@umn.edu)
Please arrange to have one letter of recommendation (signed and on institutional letterhead) emailed separately to David Hancock (hancockd@umich.edu).
The award will be announced by late March.
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