The Italian Art Society is pleased to announce that the 2024 cycle of Travel Grants is now open! Up to eight grants will be awarded across the four categories described below, including the inaugural offering of the Dorothy F. Glass ICMS Travel Award. All applications must be submitted by December 15, 2023.
Please visit the Travel Grants section of the Italian Art Society’s website for more information on required materials for applications. All applicants must be members of the Italian Art Society, and must be logged into the site to submit your application.
Please email Dr. Jasmine Cloud, Chair of the IAS Awards Committee, at awards@italianartsociety.org if you have any questions.
Italian Art Society Emerging Scholars Travel Grant
The Italian Art Society is currently offering two grants of $500 each year that support travel for IAS emerging scholars to any conference at which the IAS is sponsoring a session. This competition is open to M.A. or Ph.D. students, or Ph.D. holders within ten years of the degree (pre-tenure, non-tenure-track, or independent scholars). Applicants must be presenting a paper on the art or architecture of Italy from the prehistoric period to the present, but not necessarily in an IAS-sponsored session.
Recipients must be members of the Italian Art Society at the time of application and upon receipt of the award, and must not have received an IAS award in the previous two years. IAS officers are not eligible to apply.
Applications should be submitted here.
Italian Art Society/Samuel H. Kress Foundation International Conference Travel Grants
Through the generosity of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the IAS is currently offering up to four IAS/Kress Travel Grants of $1500 to support transoceanic travel (including travel from the US to Puerto Rico) by IAS members of any nationality traveling to present papers in IAS-sponsored sessions at CAA, RSA, ICMS at Kalamazoo, AAIS, or SCSC. Please note that as SCSC has a timeline for paper acceptance beyond our travel grant deadline, applications for eligible scholars presenting at that conference will have a deadline of June 15, 2024 to apply.
Applicants must be members of the Italian Art Society at the time of application and receipt of the award, must have received their Ph.D. by the time of application, must be presenting papers on a topic from antiquity through the early nineteenth century in an IAS-sponsored session, and must not have received an IAS award in the previous two years. IAS officers are not eligible to apply.
Applications should be submitted here.
IAS Conference Travel Grant for Modern Topics
The Italian Art Society offers a grant of up to $1000 each year to support international conference travel by scholars working on Italian art from the early nineteenth century to the present.
Scholars of any nationality are eligible to apply, but must have received their Ph.D. by the time of application, must be presenting papers on a topic that focuses on Italian art dating to the early nineteenth century or later, and must be traveling transoceanically.
Eligible conferences include those in which IAS regularly participates (whether or not the applicant is speaking on IAS’s sponsored session), including:
- College Art Association (CAA)
- American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS)
- Society of Architectural Historians (SAH)
Recipients must be members of the Italian Art Society at the time of application and upon receipt of the award, and must not have received an IAS award in the previous two years. IAS officers are not eligible to apply.
Applications should be submitted here.
Inaugural Dorothy F. Glass ICMS Travel Award
The inaugural travel award honoring the career of Dorothy F. Glass will begin in 2024. The award of $1000 is meant to support an emerging or unaffiliated scholar traveling from abroad to present at or attend the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo. Preference will be given to scholars of sculpture, the major subject of Glass’s work.
Recipients must be members of the Italian Art Society at the time of application and upon receipt of the award, and must not have received an IAS award in the previous two years. IAS officers are not eligible to apply.
Applications should be submitted here.