Melville Society Travel Awards: Oceanic Melville

After successfully helping fund eighteen grants for our conferences in New York and Paris we're excited to announce travel awards for the upcoming Melville Society Conference in Connecticut! This work is increasingly important as we watch both full-time positions and travel funding diminish at a rapid rate. 

Melville Society Travel Awards will enable us to defray the cost of attendance for scholars of limited means (i.e. contingent faculty, graduate students without travel funding, scholars who aren’t otherwise able to afford international travel, or independent scholars). And our hope is that these awards will expand and diversify the participants in our biannual conference. We think that recruiting a new generation of members is essential to the future of the Melville Society, and these grants can play a significant role in that crucial work.  

In 2019 we were stunned by your generosity, when we raised $4000!  In 2022 we raised almost as much. And this year we hope to raise at least $3600 so we can fund eight $400 grants, along with waived registration fees. We are happy to add that these gifts are tax deductible! 

Thanks so much for considering being part of this new project. We hope you'll be willing to join us in this initiative—and to help us support the future of the Melville Society.