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Research Travel Grants

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For Graduate and Advanced Undergraduate Students

In Fall 2005 the CLAW program inaugurated a new research travel grant.  Graduate and advanced undergraduate students may apply for a travel grant of $150 to allow them to pursue or present research on a topic related to the Carolina Lowcountry and/or Atlantic World. 

Up to five grants will be awarded in any given academic year on a first come-first served basis. Please apply at least one month in advance of the proposed travel by sending three copies of a letter of application to Professors Simon Lewis (lewiss@cofc.edu), David Gleeson (gleesond@cofc.edu), and Scott Poole (poolews@cofc.edu) describing

  • Date
  • Destination
  • Occasion of your travel (professional meeting, conference, research, etc.)
  • A brief description of the nature of the work you are doing and its pertinence to the Carolina Lowcountry and/or Atlantic World.  

Please also include an outline of the costs you will incur and list any other sources of funding (and amounts awarded or applied for) you are seeking.

If your application is successful, we simply ask that you send us a brief summary of your experience  on return (maximum one page), and that you acknowledge our support in any published version of your research.

Awardees

The first recipient was Ms. Sarah Goldman, a graduate student in the Master of Environmental Studies (MES) Program. Goldman traveled to the 2006 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Honolulu, HI in February 2006 to deliver a paper on the trophic structure of a deep sea fish community located 100 miles off the coast of SC in an area called the Charleston Bump. She was also awarded the 2006 Best Student Paper of the South Carolina Chapter of the American Fisheries Worker's Association and the South Carolina Chapter of the American Fisheries Society. She presented her thesis work entitled "Feeding Habits of Several Deep Water Reef Fish on the continental Slope off the Southeastern United States: Preliminary Analysis." Sarah received a plaque and a check from SCFWA for $100.00.

Jason E. Farr, a graduate assistant in the History Department, received a grant to present a paper entitled "The Origins of an Exceptional American Identity in the Colonial Period: A Historiographic Overview"at a graduate student conference at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte in March 2006. A portion of his paper addressed the influence of Atlantic history in the study of early America; in particular, Bernard Bailyn's Harvard Seminar and the work of Jack P. Greene.

Karen Chapman, a graduate student in Public Administration, received a grant in the summer of 2006 to complete an independent study summer course in London, England as part of the British studies program, which the College of Charleston is a partner.

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