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 Deadline: December 15, 2023

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. Thank you!

Postgraduate students in the Humanities and Social Sciences who are registered for a higher research degree at any European university in the country/territory of the national/regional association, and have been members of an American Studies association belonging to EAAS for at least one year may apply.

The Transatlantic Grant will permit the holder to conduct research which illuminates a particular area of American Studies in a designated university, independent research organization or archive in the United States.

The term of the grant will be between three weeks (minimum) and eight weeks (maximum). Successful applicants will receive a grant intended to cover round trip travel and some of the living expenses. Only students registered for a Ph.D. are eligible to apply for the Transatlantic Grants.

The Intra-European Grant will allow the recipient to conduct research for a period of up to four weeks in an American Studies Center or university library or archive in Europe. Graduate students who are registered either for a Ph. D. or a Master's degree by research are eligible to apply for Intra-European Grants.

Applications must be made on the official form and should include written confirmation from the host institution that the researcher will have access to the necessary resource materials, and a letter from the student's academic supervisor. Applicants will be required to supply a detailed estimate of the cost of their visit, including the cost of travel, subsistence, and incidentals. They should also state the minimum amount of money needed to make the trip possible. Applicants are encouraged to seek supporting or matching funding wherever possible.

Grant recipients will be responsible for making their own arrangements for travel and accommodation. Travel must be completed within twelve months of the grantee being notified of the award.

Grantees are required to submit a report to the EAAS Vice President within thirty days of returning from their research visit. Obviously the report should include the grantees' institution and destination. Previous reports are accessible below.

The application deadline (receipt of the application) is May 31 of each year. You may download the Application Form as a PDF here.

Please send the application form with all accompanying documents to Dr Aleksandra Izgarjan, Vice-President of the EAAS attached to an e-mail: aleksandra.izgarjan@ff.uns.ac.rs

Travel reports

2023:

Sara Riccetti(pdf)

Janice Lynne Deitner (pdf)

Isabel Marqués López (pdf)

2022:

Tionne Alliyah Parris (pdf)

Vincent Veerbeek (pdf)

David Cardillo (pdf)

Favian Mostura (pdf)

Matteo M. Rossi (pdf)

Denisa Krásná (pdf)

Beatriz Hermida Ramos (pdf)

2018:

Vasileios N. Delioglanis (pdf)

2015:

Sophie H. Jones (pdf)

Joanna Makowska (pdf)

Joe Ryan-Hume (pdf)

Timo Schreder (pdf)

Marian Suciu (pdf)

2014:

Jurrit Daalder (pdf)

Noelia Gregorio (pdf)

Rory McGinley (pdf)

Rosemary Pearce (pdf)

Alex Runchman (pdf)

Eszter Szep (pdf)

Benjamin Young (pdf)

2013:

Darryl Barthe (pdf)

Lorenzo Costaguta (pdf)

Miranda Corcoran (pdf)

Stephan Delbos (pdf)

Lukas Etter (word doc)

Anna Fyta (word doc)

Frank Gerits (word docx)

Gaetan Maret (pdf)

Amelia Precup (pdf)

Saskia Tielens (pdf)

Marta Werbanowska (pdf)

2012:

Luca Trenta (pdf file)

Roxana Ghita (pdf file)

Last updated:Feb. 27, 2016

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.