University of Colorado at Boulder

Opportunities

Ogilvy Travel Fellowship

Application Deadline: Friday, March 14, 2008

The Center for British & Irish Studies is pleased to announce the annual competition for the J.D.A. Ogilvy Graduate Travel Fellowships in British & Irish Studies for 2008-2009.

Applications are now being accepted for fellowships of up to $4500 to support travel to Britain or Ireland for graduate research and study in any aspect of British and/or Irish Studies. Graduate students in all departments and colleges at CU-Boulder may apply. Preference will be given to students who need to go to Britain or Ireland to work on a M.A. thesis or Ph.D. dissertation, but others may apply as well. The proposed travel must take place sometime between the beginning of summer 2008 and the end of summer 2009, and may be of any length. The proposed travel must be taken before the formal granting of the graduate degree and should be for academic purposes only.

Complete applications include the following elements sent in one email with four (4) separate attachments:

  • The application form. (Download in MS Word or RTF format.)
  • A project description of no more than 1,000 words.
  • A document that includes:
    1. a justification of why travel to Britain or Ireland is necessary (e.g. what documents does the student need to look at that are unavailable online or in the library)
    2. a summary of the proposed schedule with dates and places
    3. a budget.
  • A copy of the student's unofficial graduate transcript.

Additionally, applicants should secure the following:

  • A letter of recommendation from your major advisor or other faculty member familiar with your work, sent by that faculty member via email attachment to Professor Jillian Heydt-Stevenson (jill.heydt@colorado.edu) by the due date. Letters should comment on the importance of the project and on the student's qualifications.

For additional information, email Jillian Heydt-Stevenson.

2007 Ogilvy Winners

Susan M. Cogan, “Patronage, Social Credit, and Gender among English Catholics, c. 1580-1620.”

Brianna Depperschmidt, “Diuers Evelles and Many Greet Greuaunces: Sickness and Sanctity in the High Middle Ages.”

Dana Van Kooy, “Radical Stages in Romanticism: The Dramatic Forms of Shelley’s Politics.”

Graduate Student Travel Grants

Application Deadline: Friday, March 14, 2008

Criteria: Please read carefully

  1. The awards will be given solely to students who have presented or will be presenting a paper at a conference between August 2007 and August 2008. Awards will not be given to someone who has simply attended a conference. FUNDS WILL BE AWARDED FOR UP TO $500.00.
  2. The paper must be related in some way to the study of British, Scottish, or Irish Studies (simply attending a conference in the UK does not count).
  3. Generally speaking, the awarding committee will tend to give preference to students presenting at major national or international conferences (as opposed to local or regional ones), and/or to those whose presentation is related to work on their thesis or dissertation.
  4. All materials must be sent by email to Jillian Heydt-Stevenson, Executive Director of Center for British and Irish Studies, at jill.heydt@colorado.edu

Complete applications include the following elements sent in one email with three (3) separate attachments:

  • The Application Form, Parts I and II. (Download in MS Word or RTF format.)
  • A budget listing your expenses (transportation, hotel, registration, meals).
  • A copy of the acceptance letter you received from the Conference Organizers. If you received this through email, you may forward it via email; if you received a letter through the mail, you must send a hard copy to Jillian Heydt-Stevenson at Department of English, 226 UCB.

Additionally, applicants must secure the following:

  • A letter of recommendation from your major advisor or other faculty member familiar with your work, sent by that faculty member via email attachment to Professor Jillian Heydt-Stevenson (jill.heydt@colorado.edu) by the due date. Letters should comment on the student's qualifications and on the importance of the student's participation in the conference.

For additional information, email Jillian Heydt-Stevenson.

2007 CBIS Conference Grant Winners

Petra Landfester, “Looking at Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey through ‘the lens of the law.’” International Conference on Romanticism, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

John Leffel, “‘Prostituting Kitty’: Jane Austen's Catharine, or the Bower” at the International Conference on Romanticism, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

Peter Remien, “Irish Woods and Oaten Reeds: Transforming Forests in Spenser’s Faerie Queene” at the 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI

Ann Stockho, “‘This Coupled Work’: Duality of Voice in Renaissance Secretary Manuals and Mary Sidney Herbert’s Dedicatory Poems to the Psalms” at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI

James Walsh, “Colorado’s Molly MaGuires: The Great Leadville Strike of 1880” at the Canadian Association for Irish Studies in St. John’s, Newfoundland

Event Funding Opportunities

Hibernia

The Center for British & Irish Studies seeks to support speakers and events related to British and Irish culture and society.

The Center may contribute up to $500 to such events and/or use of the British Studies Room.

Those interested in funding should submit:

  1. a brief description of the event
  2. a budget
  3. contact information to:
    Jillian Heydt-Stevenson
    Department of English, 226 UCB