Competitive grants of up to $350 ($600 for overseas travel) are annually made to M.A. and Ph.D. students to support presentation of humanities research at conferences in their disciplines. This call goes out each fall and spring.

Michael Beatty (HIST), "Keeping Their Tea Down: Did a Cultural Faux Pas Derail the 1789 Creek Negotiations?" at the 31st Mid-America Conference on History in Norman, OK. Michael Beilfuss (ENGL), "'Use It Well': Progress, Reciprocal Ownership, and the Environment in Faulkner's Go Down, Moses" at the 2009 Modern Language Association Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA.
Christina Cedillo (ENGL), "Shifting Aspasia: The Figure of the Rhetorical Woman as Antanaciastic Trope" at the International Society for the History of Rhetoric Conference in Montreal, Canada.
Kimberly Cox (ENGL), "The Working Class Home: Poverty, Trash and the Home Dream in Bastard Out of Caronlina and the Beans" at the Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference in Philadelphia, PA.
Laura Gongaware (ANTH), "Does Treasure Hunting Make Cents?: The Financial Downside to Salvaging Shipwrecks" at the Society for Historical Archeology Conference on Historical and Underwater Archeology in Jacksonville, FL.
Sarah Hart (ENGL), "Lyric's Desire for Dialogue: Poetic Motive in Joyce's 'Chamber Music'" at the Modernist Studies Association Conference 11: The Languages of Modernism in Montreal, Canada.
Charles Heaton (HIST), "Enforcing Unfree Labor" Slave Patrols as a Policing Mechanism in the British Atlantic World" at the Polices et empires coloniaux 1700-1900 Conference in Paris, France.
Tyler Kasperbauer (PHIL), "The Possibility of Ape Morality" at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology in Bloomington, IN.
Soo Kim (ENGL), "Radical Cosmopolitanism in Salman Rushdie's Fury (2001)" at the 2009 Modern Language Association Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA.
Ryan Malphurs (COMM), "Could you hear me above the laughter?: The Role of Laughter in the U.S. Supreme Court" at the National Communication Association 95th Annual Convention in Chicago, IL.
Jared Peatman (HIST), "The Gettysburg Address as Foreign Policy" at the Lincoln Bicentennial Conference: European Readings of Abraham Lincoln, His Life and Legacy in Paris, France.
Murat Rodriguez (HISP), "La Eleccion de Antigona: Una reinterpretacion del mito en las escritoras Latinas en Estados Unidos" at the Reflections in the Margins: Representation of the Marginalized in Iberian and Latin American Literature in Chicago, IL.
Ho-Rim Song (ENGL), "Distributed Subject and Nonovision: Assembled Individual Subject in Superorganism in Blood Music" at the 23 rd Annual Conference of Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts in Atlanta, GA.
Beverly Van Note (ENGL), "Locating Herself Generically: Moderata Fonte's and Elizabeth Cary's Gendered Species" at the Renaissance Society of America in Venice, Italy.
Anne Marie Womack (ENGL), "Gendered Paradigms of Citizenship: Hemingway's Disruption of Soldiering, Childbearing, and Nursing" at Hemignway's Extreme Geographies, 14 th Biennial Hemingway Society Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland.