How much funding does Exploratory Travel Award Grant provide?

Exploratory Travel Award Grant provides Up to US $5,000 in funding.

When is the deadline for Exploratory Travel Award Grant?

The funder has not published a deadline for this grant.

Exploratory Travel Award Grant

Carl and Marilynn Thoma Foundation

Foundation Humanities Grants Grants for Education

Funding Amount

Up to US $5,000

Deadline

Deadline not published

Grant Type

Foundation

Can we apply?

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Eligible organizations

This funding is intended only for early-career PhD students; for example, in Europe, this generally refers to students in their first year of study, and in the United States, it means pre-candidacy.
Individuals in Europe and Latin America, where comparable sources of external funding are less available, are strongly encouraged to apply.

Other requirements

Applicants must be enrolled in an accredited PhD program.

Not eligible / not funded

Not eligible: Students whose institutions offer similar preliminary travel funding are not eligible for the award.

Overview

The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation offers the Exploratory Travel Award, granting up to $5,000 to PhD students for travel in Latin America. This initiative aims to support the development of innovative research projects by allowing students to connect with local scholars and visit archives and museums. The award is particularly focused on early-career PhD students, especially those from Europe and Latin America, and encourages contributions to the history of painting and sculpture in viceregal South America.

We make art collection-related grants, as well as lending and exhibiting our own collection. We focus our education funding on the rural Southwest, primarily offering scholarships to students in the greater Texas panhandle.
The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation is pleased to offer travel awards of up to $5,000 to PhD students who want to travel to Latin America to visit archives, museums, and art collections and connect with local scholars. Exploratory Travel Awards will enable students to develop viable and innovative research projects for future application to pre-doctoral fellowships, including the Marilynn Thoma Pre-doctoral Fellowship in Art of the Spanish Americas. The Exploratory Travel Award is intended to fund travel of 1-2 months in Latin America as preparation for more extensive archival and collections-based research in the future.

Eligibility

Applicants must be enrolled in an accredited PhD program. This funding is intended only for early-career PhD students; for example, in Europe, this generally refers to students in their first year of study, and in the United States, it means pre-candidacy. Individuals in Europe and Latin America, where comparable sources of external funding are less available, are strongly encouraged to apply.