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Deadline for Center
Prize extended to
February 17, 2012!

Information for the
Center’s 2012
Research Travel Grant

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The Center for Communal Studies at the University of Southern Indiana announces its annual paper prize competition for the best undergraduate and graduate student paper on historic or contemporary communal groups, intentional communities, and utopias. 

Prizes:

1. Author of the best graduate paper or thesis or dissertation chapter will receive $500. 
2. Author of the best undergraduate paper or thesis will receive $250. 

Deadline extended to February 17, 2012.

To apply, do one of the following:

1. Send an electronic copy to the submission email...
2. Send two paper copies to the mailing address...

Questions may also be directed to the submission email...

The Center for Communal Studies at the University of Southern Indiana invites applications for a travel grant to fund research at the Communal Studies Collection at USI's David L. Rice Library.  The Communal Studies Collection's rich archival materials contain information on over 600 historic and contemporary communal societies, utopias, and intentional communities.  A complete listing of communities can be found at http://www.usi.edu/library/communalstudies.asp.   Strengths include the Harmonists and Owenites who settled nearby New Harmony, Indiana, but the breadth of the collections cover American communalism more broadly.

The University of Southern Indiana (www.usi.edu) is located in Evansville, 25 miles from the historic communal town of New Harmony, Indiana. 

Applicant requirements:
Applicants may be graduate students or established scholars in the United States or abroad from any discipline that involves the study of communalism (such as history, English, anthropology, sociology, etc.) 

What the grant will do:
The grant will fund research up to $2,000 to be used from July 1 to June 30 annually. 

Application Deadline is May 1 annually.

The following submission materials need to be sent by way of the mailing address or the submission email...

• Letter detailing the project and its significance to communal studies
• Proposed budget
• Vita

Questions may also be directed to the submission email...

1. Submission email: communalcenter@usi.edu
   
   
2. Mailing address:
   Dr. Casey Harison
   Center for Communal Studies
   University of Southern Indiana
   8600 University Boulevard
   Evansville, IN, 47712 USA
   
   Office:  (812) 465-1656
   Fax:  (812) 465-7152

Please contact Marilyn Thielman (Email: msthielman) for more information.