ICMA Student Travel Grant and Student Essay Award – Call For Applications

ICMA Student Travel Grant

The ICMA has initiated a new form of grant for graduate students in the early stages of their dissertation research. Three grants will be awarded this year, at $3,000 each, to enable a student to travel to Europe (including the Eastern Mediterranean) to visit the monuments or museum objects or manuscripts on which the dissertation will be based. The grant is designed to cover one month of travel. The ICMA will contact institutions and/or individuals in the area to be visited; these will help the student gain access to the relevant material and aid in other practical matters.

The grant is designed primarily for the student who has finished the preliminary exams, and is in the process of formulating a dissertation topic. Students who have already submitted a proposal, but are still very early on in the process of their research, may also apply.

All applicants must be ICMA members.

Applications are due by 1 March, 2016. The ICMA will announce the winners of the three grants by 13 May 2016.

For full details please visit: http://www.medievalart.org/icmacommunitynews/2016/2/24/icma-student-travel-grant-and-student-essay-award


ICMA Graduate Student Essay Award

The International Center of Medieval Art wishes to announce its annual Graduate Student Essay Award for the best essay by a student member of the ICMA. The theme or subject of the essay may be any aspect of medieval art, and can be drawn from current research. The work must be original and should not have been published elsewhere. The winner will receive a prize of $400.

Thanks to the generosity of one of our members, we are now be able to offer a second prize as well, of $200. The donor of this prize has suggested that “special consideration be given to those papers that incorporate some discussion of the interconnections among medieval science, technology, and art.” Although the prize will by no means be restricted to papers that address this theme, papers that do so will be given special attention by the selection committee.

All applicants must be ICMA members.

The deadline for submission is 1 March, 2016. The winners will be announced at the ICMA meeting in Kalamazoo in May.

For full details please visit: http://www.medievalart.org/icmacommunitynews/2016/2/24/icma-student-travel-grant-and-student-essay-award