Grants

Grants

EAAS American Studies Network Book Prize 2024

The American Studies Network Book Prize is a prize of €500 for a remarkable book published in English by a European scholar on any aspect of American Studies. The jury for that prize, presented biennially at EAAS conferences, is composed of representatives from the EAAS and the ASN. To apply for this award, please submit a brief cover letter in the body of an email, explaining why the book deserves the prize, along with a copy of the book (attached as a PDF document or linked to a publicly accessible file). Books published in 2022 and 2023 are eligible for the 2024 ASN Book Prize. Send your application to the ASN President Emma Long (Emma.Long@uea.ac.uk). Application DeadlineDecember 15, 2023

EAAS Conference 2024 Grant

EAAS POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE GRANT

The European Association for American Studies announces the call for the Postgraduate Conference Grant for the EAAS Biannual conference “1924 – 2024: The American Immigrant Narrative Revisited” which will be held in Munich, April 4-6, 2024.

More about the conference can be found here: https://www.amerikahaus.de/en/bavarian-american-academy/eaas2024

Postgraduate students in the Humanities and Social Sciences who are registered for a higher research degree at any European university and are members of an American Studies association belonging to the EAAS may apply.

The eligibility for these grants will be restricted to early career scholars and/or scholars from countries with a nominal GDP of less than 30,000 USD per capita (according to the most recent IMF list). Please review the following points before applying:

  • Applications must be submitted electronically to the EAAS Vice-President, Professor Aleksandra Izgarjan (aleksandra.izgarjan@ff.uns.ac.rs), by December 15, 2023.
  • Applicants must enclose the application form with the confirmation letter from the organizers stating that their abstract was accepted and that it is included in the program of the conference.
  • Applicants can apply for a maximum of 300 EUR, to cover travel and/or accommodation and/or meals.
  • Application forms should only be sent after receiving confirmation of acceptance onto the conference program.
  • Successful applicants will be notified by January 31, 2024 and should then promptly confirm their attendance.
  • Successful applicants should submit a personal receipt outlining the expenses covered by the grant to EAAS Treasurer, Professor Carmen Birkle (birkle@staff.uni-marburg.de), within two months of the conference travel (by June 30, 2024).

EAAS Postgraduate Travel Grants

EAAS Postgraduate Travel Grants

NOTE: Please use the address aleksandra.izgarjan@ff.uns.ac.rs for all your questions regarding the Travel grant. Send your applications ONLY to this email address. The address vice-president@eaas.eu is not functioning properly at present. Thank you!

Postgraduate students in the Humanities and Social Sciences who are registered for a higher research degree at any European university, and are members of an American Studies association belonging to EAAS may apply. Two kinds of grants are available: the Transatlantic Grant and the Intra-European Grant. The maximum single award granted may amount to EUR 2,000.

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EAAS Rob Kroes Publication Award

Call for Manuscript Submissions ~ Closing Date:
Jan. 30
th
, 2017.

2024 EAAS Rob Kroes Publication Award

The 2024 Rob Kroes Book Award has been awarded to Elena Furlanetto for her manuscript  “Ambiguity: Dis/Ambiguated Texts and Selves in North America: 1643-1883”.
An honorary mention goes to Francesco Bacci for his manuscript "Racial Conflicts in Academia: Black Campus Novels."

 

EAAS ROB KROES PUBLICATION AWARD

The Rob Kroes Book Award for 2022 has been awarded to Tuula Kolehmainen for her manuscript "'Like Men They Stood': Black Male Vulnerability in Fiction Written by African American Women.”

  

Previous awards

The Rob Kroes Book Award for 2021 has been awarded to Giulia Crisanti for her manuscript “Europeans Are Lovin’ it? Coca Cola, McDonald’s, and the Responses to American Global Business in Italy and France, 1886-2015.”

The Rob Kroes Book Award for 2020 has been awarded to:

Pia Wiegmink for “Reconfiguring the Nation: Transnationalism and Gender in Nineteenth-Century American Abolitionist Literature”

The manuscript provides a fresh assessment of classic material through an interdisciplinary, transnational, gendered lens and adds dimension and texture to understandings of American abolitionist writing by pushing its boundaries beyond the US and onto the global stage.

Martina Mastandrea for “F. Scott Fitzgerald on Silent Film”

The manuscript does a highly competent job of bringing everything that is known about the silent film adaptations of Fitzgerald’s works together into one readable and entertaining body of work.

 

The winner of the 2015 EAAS Rob Kroes Publication Award was Dr. Ahu Tanrisever for Fathers, Warriors, and Vigilantes: Post-Heroism and the U.S. Cultural Imaginary in the Twenty-First Century, now vol. 10, 2016 (Rob Kroes Publication Award 2015), xvi +273p., ISBN 978-3-8253-6578-3, € 39 (also as e-book).

 

The 2013 EAAS Rob Kroes biennial Publication Award for the best book manuscript in American Studies went to Andrew S. Gross for The Pound Reaction: Liberalism and Lyricism in Midcentury American Literature, now vol. 7, 2015 (Rob Kroes Publication Award 2013). viii + 262p., ISBN 978-3-8253-6470-0, € 36. Order on line (also as e-book).

 

The 2011 EAAS Rob Kroes biennial Publication Award went to Dr Frank Mehring (John F. Kennedy Institut, Freie Universität Berlin) for The Democratic Gap: Transcultural Confrontations of German Immigrants and the Promise of American Democracy. It is now vol. 5 (2014) of the series European Views of the United States. xxiv, 403 p., 38 unpag. color plates, ISBN 978-3-8253-6170-9, € 50.Order on line (also e-book)

 

The 2009 Kroes Prize winner was Astrid Franke of the University of Tübingen, Germany. It was published as vol. 2 vol. 2, 2010 of the series European Views of the United States. xiv, 281 p., ISBN 978-8253-5751-1, € 39.

 

Franke Cover The Democratic Gap The Pound Reaction - cover   9783825365783  

See the section "EAAS Biennial Conference Volumes and Other EAAS Publications" for details.