Description
The Kemal H. Karpat Center for Turkish Studies (KCTS) invites applications for travel grants of up to $1000 to support current UW-Madison PhD 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
Academic Staff and Non-tenure-eligible UW instructors, holding at least a 50% appointment, are also invited to apply, and funds will be transferred to a designated research shortcode.
A selection committee will review all applications.
Eligibility
Priority will be given to PhD students, who:
- Have not previously received a grant from the Karpat Center.
- Have completed their preliminary exams.
- Demonstrate cost-sharing
Applicants must be up to date on all previous KCTS grant reporting.
Applicants may only receive one travel grant per calendar year.
Application Requirements
Interested applicants must submit the following:
- A brief description (maximum 500 words) outlining the research project, the conference, the relevance of the presentation to their academic and professional development, the title of their paper or project, and the project timeline
- A letter of acceptance for their paper or publication
- 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 include an unofficial transcript from UW-Madison; Academic Staff and Non-tenure eligible UW instructors must include a short CV
- A brief statement of support from the applicant’s advisor (for graduate students). 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 up to 500 words. This report will be featured on the Karpat Center’s website
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
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 Report (pdf)
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 Report (pdf)
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 – Conference Travel Report (pdf)
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 – Conference Travel Report (pdf)
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 – Conference Travel Report (pdf)
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 – Conference Travel Report (pdf)
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