The Eakins Lecture and Travel Fund for American Art History
Each year, the Department of Art History offers awards to graduate students matriculated in the M.A. or Ph.D. program, intended to defray travel expenses associated with delivering professional lectures on topics in American art history at national conferences or symposia. Eligible conferences include (but are not limited to) the College Art Association, the Association of Historians of American Art, the American Studies Association, the Society of Early Americanists, the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, as well as various graduate student art history symposia held at other institutions, including the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Art History Graduate Symposium hosted by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. For students who present lectures at local conferences or symposia and do not incur travel expenses, an honorarium will be considered.
To be considered for an award, please submit an Art History Graduate Student Travel Request form, indicating that your topic is appropriate for Eakins Fund support. In order to be considered for support, the student must also apply for funding through a Tyler Dean’s Grant, if paper acceptance occurs prior to the Dean’s Grant deadline. For all funded conference talks, the student must also deliver an informal practice talk to the department, and prepare a 4-page PowerPoint presentation to be aired on the flatscreens during the Spring all-student exhibition. Please consult with the graduate director for the proper formatting. Applications to this Fund should be submitted to the Director of Graduate Studies. Award recipients will be announced at the Tyler awards ceremony in May.