Thoma Foundation Exploratory Travel Award Application

Limit three pages. Include any professional experience, honors, awards, and publications

Up to 1,200 words. Briefly introduce your prospective dissertation topic with reference to existing scholarship. Recognizing that the Exploratory Travel Award is designed to help students develop and focus their dissertation proposals, this synopsis might be framed as a research question rather than a firm thesis statement. Where possible, however, students are encouraged to outline the proposed intervention and speculative scope of the dissertation. Detail your research plan during your stay in Latin America, noting the collections, archives, or other institutions you intend to visit, as well as listing the names of scholars whom you will contact in advance of travel. Explain how the travel grant will help develop this project and what aspects of its feasibility or planning will be addressed during travel.

Limit one page. Identify the sources you will use to frame and carry out the project.

Limit one page. Budget should note the total amount requested (maximum $5,000) and include airfare and ground travel, estimated accommodation costs, and a project allowance. The project allowance may be used to cover archival access fees, reproduction costs (e.g., photocopying), and book purchases. The award MAY NOT be used for equipment purchases (such as cameras and laptops) nor for expenses like conference attendance or travel within the United States.