Description
The Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish Studies (KCTS) invites applications for travel grants of up to $1000 to support UW-Madison graduate students in good academic standing and working in any area of Turkish Studies (broadly defined), including Anatolian archaeology and Byzantine Studies.
The grants are intended to assist with travel costs:
- for presenting papers at academic conferences
- for archival or field research
Non-tenure eligible UW instructors are also invited to apply. A selection committee will review all applications.
Eligibility
Priority will be given to graduate students who:
- Have not previously received a grant from the Karpat Center.
- Have completed their preliminary exams.
Applicants may only receive one travel grant per calendar year.
Application Requirements
Interested applicants must submit the following:
- A brief description (max 500 words) outlining the conference, the relevance of the presentation for their academic and professional development, and the title of their paper.
- A letter of acceptance for their paper.
- OR A brief description (max 500 words) explaining how archival or field research is necessary for the project in progress
- An itemized budget (travel cost), including any other financial support already received or requested.
- Graduate students must also include an unofficial transcript from UW-Madison.
- A brief statement of support from the applicant’s advisor (for graduate students) or department chair (for non-tenure eligible instructors). The statement should be emailed directly to karpatcenter@history.wisc.edu.
- Graduate students may be invited to present their paper at the Karpat Talks series organized by the Karpat Graduate Student Society (K-GRADS)/Karpat Center
- All awardees must submit a conference or research progress report of approximately 500 to 1,000 words.
Please submit your completed application as a single PDF document to karpatcenter@history.wisc.edu.
Deadline
March 1st and October 1st for funding for conference travel. October 1st for funding for research travel. We will no longer be accepting applications on a rolling basis.
Grants Awarded
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2024
- Tiffany Van Winkoop, Ph.D. Student, Department of History – Conference Travel Report (pdf)
Conference Travel Grant (At the Conference of the Leeds International Medieval Congress, United Kingdom, 2024)
Presentation title: Ceremonies of Crisis?: Gendered Imperial Processions in the Middle Byzantine Era - Berke Cetinkaya, Ph.D. Student, Department of History
Conference Travel Grant (At the Conference of the Leeds International Medieval Congress, United Kingdom, 2024)
Presentation title: Geographical Imagination of Crete in the Times of Crises: A Lair of Despair or a Lost Homeland? - Selenay Aydın, Dissertator, Department of History
Conference Travel Grant (At the Conference of the Inclusion and Exclusion in Medieval Central Europe, Munich, Germany, 2025)
Presentation title: Beyond Borders: Ottoman-Italian Relations and Identity Formation in the Late Middle Ages - Hakan Özlen, Ph.D. Student, Department of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Research Travel Grant (The exploration of the Temple of Apollo Lairbenos ruins, Denizli, Turkey.
Research Proposal Title: Reconstructing the Sanctuary of Apollo Lairbenos: A New Understandings of Property Transfer through Consecration Inscriptions - Berke Cetinkaya, Ph.D. Student, Department of History
Research Travel Grant ISAM (Centre for Islamic Studies), Boğaziçi University and Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey; The National Library of Turkey, Ankara, Turkey.
Research Proposal Title: Muslim and Turkish Perceptions of Byzantine Loyalty, Trustworthiness, and Promise-Keeping from the 9th to the 12th Century - Jae (Juliet) D. Weller, Ph.D. Student, Linguistics Program, Department of English
Conference Travel Grant (At the Conference of the Linguistics Society of America in Philadelphia, PA, January 9-12, 2025)
Presentation title: Voicing Alternation in Turkish Plosives
2023
- Nicole Fischer, Ph.D. Candidate, German Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of German, Nordic and Slavic+
Conference Travel Grant (At the Conference of the German Studies Association in Montréal)
Presentation title: Is There Still Hope? Presenting on Deniz Ohde’s Streulicht (2020) and How It Conveys Hope in Times of Ongoing Crises - Selenay Aydın, Ph.D. Student, Department of History
Research Travel Grant
Research proposal title: Before Turning Turk: Turks and Italian Mercantile Communities Relations from the 13th Century to the Late-15th Century - Emir Karakaya, Ph.D. Student, Department of History
Research Travel Grant
Research proposal title: The development of civil codes in Meiji Japan and the Ottoman Empire during the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries