Travel Awards

There is a yearly competition for these travel awards, which are granted on the basis of merit of the application and relevance to the student's research program. If you are planning to travel in the current year, prepare a draft budget, a travel plan, and a description of the purpose of your travel (include details such as conference name, archives or institutes' names, title of research presentation or description of research topic) and follow instructions for requesting departmental travel award funding from the Director of Graduate Programs.

Robert J Buck Travel Award
Value: Variable
Eligibility: Awarded annually to graduate students in Classics.
Purpose: To provide funds for travel in the Mediterranean countries.

David Marples Eastern European MA Travel Award
Funded by Professor David Marples
Value: Variable 

Eligibility: Awarded annually to a student registered full-time in a graduate degree program in the Department of History and Classics with satisfactory academic standing to provide travel funds to visit archives, libraries, or other research centres or to attend language training in Eastern Europe (European territories of the former Soviet Union, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary or former Yugoslavia). Preference will be given to students registered in the MA program and financial need will be taken into consideration. A student may only receive the award once.

Application: When the award becomes available in GSMS, follow the department's instructions for submitting your request for nomination to the Director of Graduate Studies.

Dianne Samson Graduate Student Travel Award
Endowed by family and friends of the late Dianne Samson
Value: Variable 

Eligibility: Awarded annually to a full-time student registered in a graduate degree program in the Department of History and Classics who is working in any area of history other than Classical history.

Purpose: To provide travel funds to visit archives, libraries, or other research centres.

Beryl Steel Travel Award
Value: Variable 
Eligibility: For graduate students in the History program only.

Purpose: To support travel to archives outside Edmonton, also travel to conferences at which the student is presenting a paper. Normally, students get this award only once in their programs.