Western History Disability Studies and Disabled Scholar Award Grant

The Western History Disability Studies and Disabled Scholar Award, funded by Alida Boorn, aims to enhance understanding of disability within the context of North American West history. This $1,000 award supports two graduate students engaged in disability studies or identifying as disabled, facilitating their attendance at the WHA conference. Recipients will benefit from networking opportunities and financial assistance to present their academic work, thus promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in historical scholarship.

Western History Association
The Western History Association strives to be a congenial home for the study and teaching of all aspects of North American Wests, frontiers, homelands, and borderlands.
Enable collaborations among peoples, institutions, and organizations devoted to the study of western history. Conduct an annual conference at which western history teachers, scholars, and professionals share their research and exchange ideas that facilitate further study of the North American West. Publish an award-winning journal that employs rigorous peer reviews to identify, improve, and distribute original western history scholarship.Promote public education on western history through active involvement with teachers, museums, non profit organizations, libraries, and other venues.
Western History Disability Studies and Disabled Scholar Award
The $1,000 award, funded by independent blind historian Alida Boorn, will support two graduate students ($1,000 per award) who either are working in the fields of disability studies and western history OR identify as disabled and who wish to attend the WHA conference with financial assistance. Funding from the award will assist their ability to research and present academic papers and network with other scholars at the annual WHA conferences. Applicants are not required to be conference program participants (presenters, panelists, chairs, etc.).