IUB-CAHI Graduate Conference Travel Award Spring

The CAHI Graduate Conference Travel Award supports IU Ph.D., M.A., or M.F.A. students working in the arts and humanities traveling to professional conferences to present their original research or creative activity. Awards may be up to $500 for domestic travel and $750 for international travel.

In the interest of supporting as many emerging scholars and artists as possible, previous Conference Travel Award recipients must wait one full academic year before applying again.

CAHI will not give awards retroactively for travel that has already taken place. For cases in which timing is misaligned, such as an upcoming conference for which you are still awaiting confirmation of acceptance, we recommend writing to cahi@iu.edu and submitting a conditional application by the deadline. It is easy to withdraw the application should you end up not traveling.

All awards are subject to university restrictions and regulations.

Note: It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that the letter of support is submitted to CAHI by the application deadline. Applications that are missing a letter of support will not be reviewed.

Late applications will not be considered for funding.

Who may apply: IU Ph.D., M.A., or M.F.A. students working in the arts and humanities whose primary degree affiliation is within core College of Arts + Sciences departments and and College schools (Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design, and the Media School).

Applicants need to have completed all coursework and qualifying exams, been advanced to candidacy, and be at work on the dissertation. M.F.A. applicants must be within one year of completing their thesis work. M.Arch applicants must have successfully completed their third semester of course work signaling the end of the Core Curriculum. Those students must be beginning work on a faculty approved independent study and/or a final or capstone project in the last three semesters of the program.

Please note: While CAHI is able to accept graduate funding applications from HLS, Eskenazi, and Media Schools this semester (spring 2026), we do not know whether this will be the case in future funding cycles.

Students must be enrolled in the College of Arts + Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington in order to apply for and receive award funding.

If other internal or external funding is received for the same project, CAHI requires notification and reserves the right to adjust or reassign awards in light of this information.

Award
Varies
Deadline
02/15/2026
Supplemental Questions
  1. Please upload a 1-page cover letter outlining the signifiance of the conference in relation to your work. Make sure to convey this information using language that reviewers outside your field of expertise will be able to understand (i.e. spell out acronyms; cut out disciplinary jargon)
  2. Please upload a copy of your CV or resume.
  3. Please provide name, dates, and location of conference where you will present your research.
  4. Is the conference regional, national, or international in scope?
  5. Have you been accepted to the conference or is your contribution pending?
  6. Please upload documentation that your paper has been accepted for the conference.
  7. Please upload a brief abstract of the paper to be given (no more than 200 words).
  8. Provide a tentative project budget including justification.
  9. Please provide the contact information for a faculty advisor or the Director of Graduate Studies who will be submitting a letter of support on your behalf. The letter should confirm your progress toward degree and outline the significance of the conference in relation to your work.
  10. Please enter the first and last name of your department Chair.
  11. Please enter the first and last name of your Director of Graduate Studies
  12. Have you previously received CAHI funding?
  13. If your application is successful, may we share it as an example for future applicants? (Identifying details can be removed.)
  14. Any additional information you'd like to provide.
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