Student Application for Summer Funding - Application Form

Stone Center Summer Field Research Grants for Graduate Students in Latin America and the Caribbean

APPLICATION FORM

Deadline for Application: March 19, 2018

All applications and supporting documentation must be submitted by email to as a single electronic file attachment in .pdf file format.

I. BASIC APPLICATION INFORMATION

(a) Full Name:

(b) Tulane ID Number:

(c) Citizenship Status (If not a U.S. citizen, please provide the name of the country of your citizenship):

(d) Complete Mailing Address:

(e) Phone Number:

(f) E-mail:

(g) School and Department Affiliation at Tulane:

(h) Degree Program in which you are enrolled:

(i) Name of Faculty Project Sponsor:

(j) School and Department Affiliation of Faculty Sponsor:

(k) Project Title:

(l) Foreign Country where fieldwork will be conducted:

(m) Languages Spoken in area where fieldwork will be conducted:

(n) Please provide a short description of your relevant language skills:

(o) Have you or do you plan to apply for other summer research or language training funding? If yes, please specify.

(p) How many days or weeks do you plan to spend in the field?

(q) Does your project involve human subjects?

II. Budget

A. Proposed Transportation Costs

NOTE: Airfare should be the minimum round trip cost from your U.S. City of Origin to your destination--we cannot underwrite flights from other locations outside of the United States, nor are we able to pay for extended stops en route to your field work. Research your airfare costs on the web and indicate the flight used.

Explanation: Please use this space to provide the Airline and flight numbers used for your airfare estimate.

B. Proposed Subsistence Allowance.

III. Detailed Itinerary and Timeline

Please provide a detailed itinerary of your proposed research trip including information such as: dates, location (in the foreign country), possible contacts, and research objectives for location. PLEASE NOTE: Careful scrutiny is given to the care with which you have designed your field research in advance of your arrival, insuring that your itinerary is sensible, your project design is efficient, and that your work plans include timelines and contacts that will enable you to complete your research effectively.

IV. PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Please describe in two or three pages (a) the character and need for the research, (b) the project’s methodology, design, and feasibility, (c) previous scholarship, (d) your qualifications and methodological and linguistic capacity to carry out the research, and (e) the significance of the research to the advancement of your professional goals.

V. TRANSCRIPT

Please attach an official transcript of your Tulanegraduate coursework and information about current and projected coursework that might not be evident in the transcript.

VI. FACULTY SPONSOR RECOMMENDATION

Please download and deliver to your faculty sponsor (or have your faculty sponsor directly download and complete by him or herself) the Stone Center Summer Field Research Grant Faculty Sponsor Recommendation Form. Your faculty sponsor should submit this completed formby email as a single .pdf file attachment to the following email address: