This year, the National Institute of Social Sciences is partnering with the American Historical Association to support graduate students participating at the AHA’s annual meeting. The “National Institute of Social Sciences Annual Meeting Travel Grants” provide modest grants to defray expenses incurred by graduate students who are presenting papers or making presentations.

“We’re grateful to the NiSS for providing these grants, which enable students who couldn’t attend otherwise to participate fully in our annual meeting,” says James Grossman, executive director of the American Historical Association.

Four graduate students have been selected to receive these grants for the 2020 AHA Annual Meeting, which takes place from January 3-6 in New York.

Ellen Abrams, of Cornell University, is presenting her research—“Indebted to No One: Stories and Representations of the Self-Made American Mathematician"—at one of the AHA’s poster session.

John Andrews, of the University of Maryland, is participating in a panel discussion: “Teaching US History through Sports.”

Aubrey Lauersdorf, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will present a paper: “An Apalachee Revolt? Reconceptualizing Violence in 17th-Century Apalachee.”

Jose Manuel Moreno Vega, also of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will present a paper on “Gift Giving: The Burden of Sustaining Peace with the Spaniards.”

The grantees were selected by the AHA from a list of qualified applicants who were listed in the program and who had not previously received an AHA travel grant.

The “National Institute of Social Sciences Annual Meeting Travel Grants” are open to graduate students studying any major or minor field of history. Preference is given to graduate students who are delivering papers or making presentations at the annual meeting. Click here to make a gift to support the National Institute’s grants program.