Center for Communal Studies at the University of Southern Indiana: Research Travel Grant
The Center for Communal Studies at the University of Southern Indiana (USI) annually invites applications for a research travel grant to fund research at the Communal Studies Collection at USI’s David L. Rice Library. The Communal Studies Collection’s rich archival materials hold information on over 600 historic and contemporary communal societies, utopias, and intentional communities. A complete listing of communities can be found on the Rice Library website. Strengths include materials on the Harmonists and Owenites who settled nearby New Harmony, Indiana, but the breadth of the collections covers American communalism more broadly. Applicants may be graduate students or established scholars in the United States or abroad from any discipline that involves the study of communalism (such as history, languages, architecture, engineering, health, art, anthropology, economics, sociology, etc.). The grant will fund research up to $2,000 to be used by 30 June of the subsequent year. All applications must include a letter detailing the project and its significance to communal studies, a proposed budget, and a vita. Applications are due annually by 1 March. The winner of this research travel grant is announced annually in June. Please send materials as e-mail attachments to Silvia Rode at sarode@usi.edu. For more information, visit www.usi.edu/liberal-arts/communal-center/prizes-and-travel-grant/.