Graduate Student Travel Awards
Nominations Due
February 15, 2021
Each year, three grants will be made to graduate students to help defray the costs of attending the annual conference. Any student member of DSA enrolled in a graduate degree program and engaged in dance research is eligible. Students need not have a paper accepted for presentation at the conference in order to apply. Although applications from students presenting papers are encouraged, applications from students interested in attending a Working Group or simply listening and learning also are welcome. In all cases, applicants must demonstrate that attending the conference will further their research. There is no presumption that presenting, participating in a Working Group, or simply attending is the most grant-worthy application.
Individuals are eligible to receive a Graduate Student Travel Grant only once during their graduate career. Although student members of DSA may apply for the Travel Grant and the Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize or Gertrude Lippincott Prize in the same year, they may not accept both a travel grant and a prize in the same year.
Applicants must be members in good standing of DSA at the time of applying for the Graduate Student Travel Grant.
Latest Winner
Nomination Instructions
If you are applying to present at the annual DSA conference, upload a one-page application letter along with your presentation proposal (pdf, doc, docx) here: https://dsa2021.dryfta.com/. If you are not applying to present at the conference, send your one-page application letter to awards@dancestudiesassociation.org with subject line Graduate Student Travel Award.
Past Recipients
Year
Recipient
2019
Gayathri Iyer
2019
Shuntaro Yoshida
2018
Elan Marchinko
2018
Miriam Althammer
2018
Filip Petkovski
2017
Elyan Hill
2017
Laura Quinton
2016
Elaheh Hatami
Free University of Berlin
Project or Publication:
“Glocal Bodies: Dancers in Exile and Politics of Place”
2016
Alessandra Williams
University of California, Los Angeles
Project or Publication:
“Allying Against Appropriation: The Contemporary Indian Dance/Jazz Aesthetic of Ananya Dance Theatre”
2016
Maria Regina Firmino-Castillo
California Institute of Integral Studies
Project or Publication:
“The Destruction and Regeneration of Worlds through Dance: Embodied, Telluric, and Decolonial Responses to the Triple Violence of Modernity/Coloniality”
2015
Celena Monteiro
University of Chichester
Project or Publication:
“Screening Subjects: Transnational Dancehall Queen Culture in a Social Media Age”
2015
Heather Rastovac Akbarzadeh
University of California, Berkeley
Project or Publication:
“Does Iranian Dance Need Saving? The Politics of Preservation in the 1st International Iranian Dance Conference”
2015
Maria Eugenia Cadus
Buenos Aires University, Argentina
Project or Publication:
“Electra (1950): Argentine Ballet and Welfare Democratization in a Mass Public Event of First Peronism”
2014
Sima Belmar
University of California, Berkeley
Project or Publication:
“Signed Sealed Delivered: ASL Poetry and the Wallflower Order Dance Collective”
2014
Rachel Carrico
University of California, Riverside
Project or Publication:
“Un/Easy Authority: Why I Won’t Dance My Dissertation”
2014
Cristina de Lucas
University of Roehampton
Project or Publication:
“Dancing Happiness. Lyrics and Choreography in Singin in the Rain (1952)”
2013
Alexandra Harlig
The Ohio State University
Project or Publication:
“The Madison Rises Again: History and Community at Columbus Ohio’s 1960s Dance Party”
2013
Anaïs Sékiné
Université de Montréal
Project or Publication:
“Cultural Appropriations and the Politics of Joy: a study of Lindy hop in Montreal swing dance”
2012
Victoria Fortuna
Northwestern University
2011
Jodie McNeilly
University of Sydney
2011
Stefania Mylona
University of Surrey
2011
Lise Uytterhoeven
University of Surrey
2010
Tayana L. Hardin
University of Michigan
2010
Jennifer Myers
Northwestern University
2010
Maria Urrutia
Goddard College
2009
Cecile Guedon
Birkbeck College, University of London
2009
Megan Nicely
New York University
2009
Aoife McGrath
Trinity College Dublin
2008
Nyama McCarthy
Brown, Temple University
2007
Margaret Booker
University of Texas-Austin
2007
Kate Elswit
University of Cambridge
2007
Susanne Foellmer
Free University Berlin
2007
Carrie Gaiser
University of Texas-Austin
2007
Lester Tome
Temple University
2007
Jessica Van Ort
Temple University
2006
Jennifer Buscher
University of California, Riverside
2006
Deidre Cavazzi
University of California
2006
IrvineThom Hecht
University of the Arts, London