The Nineteenth Century Studies Association Faculty Development Travel Award recognizes the excellent work of contingent faculty. According to the AAUP, contingent faculty are part-time and full-time faculty appointed off the tenure track (including lecturers, instructors, limited-term faculty, adjuncts, and independent scholars). This award recognizes an outstanding paper to be presented at our annual conference by a contingent faculty member. The winner will receive $500 to defray the costs of attending the conference. The award check will be presented at the conference, and the NCSA Faculty Development Travel Award recipient will be recognized at the Business Meeting and in conference literature.
Eligibility
Entrants must be NCSA members who are contingent faculty members by the above AAUP definition. They must present their paper in person at the annual conference, and submit the completed paper at the time they apply for the Faculty Development Travel Award. Entries can be from any discipline and may focus on any aspect of the long nineteenth century (the French Revolution to World War I); they must be written in English or be accompanied by an English translation, and must be by a single author. Papers that are interdisciplinary are especially encouraged. The winning paper will be selected by a committee of nineteenth-century scholars representing diverse disciplines.
Submission of a paper is considered affirmation that the applicant does not have access to institutional support that would defray all attendance costs. Our expectation is that all scholars who submit proposals agree to attend and present the paper when their proposal is accepted, regardless of whether or not a travel grant is later awarded.
Conference presenters may only apply for one conference travel award in a given year.
Deadline
January 15, 2024
To Apply
Contingent faculty with accepted proposals should fill out the Travel Grant Application and submit it along with the completed paper to the Chair of the Faculty Development and Travel Awards Committee, A. Maggie Hazard (ahazar1@saic.edu) by January 15, 2024:
The final decision regarding the award will be announced by January 31st, 2024.
All submissions via email will be acknowledged.
Inquiries
A. Maggie Hazard
Chair of the Faculty Development and Travel Awards Committee
ahazar1@saic.edu
Previous Recipients
2023
Victor Monnin, Illinois Institute of Technology. “The Dinotherium and the Acropolis: Albert Gaudry’s Reconstruction of the Extinct Fauna of Attica and the Idealization of Ancient Greece (1850–1870).”
2022
Elizabeth Wells, SUNY Cortland, “Radical Loopholes: Harriet Jacobs’s Literary Genre-Stretching,” 2022 NCSA Conference in Rochester, New York
2020
Jessica George, “The Problem of Resilience: Southern Botany and the Abolitionist Narrative,” 2020 NCSA Conference in Rochester, New York.
2019
Camilla Murgia, “Beyond the Unknown: Exploring the Foreign through Textiles and Wallpapers in Napoleonic and Restoration France,” 2019 NCSA Conference in Kansas City.