Nan Johnson Outstanding Graduate Student Travel Award (Due 3/28/25)

Dear Colleagues,

I’m excited to announce this call for applications for the Nan Johnson Outstanding Graduate Student Travel Award. I hope you’ll apply and/or circulate this call. Application details are below.

The Nan Johnson Outstanding Graduate Student Travel Award is presented biennially in odd years to graduate students working in the field of composition and rhetoric and it recognizes outstanding scholarship and research in the areas of feminist pedagogy, practice, history, and theory. The award is designed to enable students to attend the Feminisms and Rhetorics conference by providing $200.00 travel stipends plus conference registration.

Eligibility
Student must be an accepted presenter at the conference
Student must be a Coalition member at the time of nomination
How to Apply
The next awards will be announced, judged, and conferred in 2025. The application submission date for the 2025 conference is March 28, 2025. Applicants should provide the following items:

A letter attesting to their eligibility (see above) and describing the ways in which their research is consistent with the conference theme and with the mission of the Coalition

A letter from a faculty mentor in their program indicating support for the application and that they do not have other significant financial support for the conference. This letter may be sent separately, directly by the faculty mentor.

Please direct applications and any questions about this award to Jess Enoch, Immediate Past President, at jenoch1@umd.edu.