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<div>Dear All,</div>
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<div dir="ltr">The Center for the Study of Religion is excited to announce the deadline for the 2022-2023 Iles Graduate Research Award in the study of Myth as
<b>Friday, February 17, 2023 at 5pm</b>. Relevant details below:</div>
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Robert L. and Phyllis J. Iles Award for Graduate Study of Myth<a id="Graduate Awards" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(186, 12, 47);"></a></h2>
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The Center for the Study of Religion oversees an annual competition to award up to $4000 to an Ohio State graduate student in the Arts and Humanities who is working on myth, broadly conceived.</p>
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More specifically, the<strong style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bold"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Robert L. and Phyllis J. Iles Award for Graduate Study of Myth</strong>, which is administrated by the CSR, has been established to make
an annual award of up to $2000 each spring to a graduate student in the Division of the Arts and Humanities in support of that student’s research on myth. The award shall be supplemented by $1000 from the Division of the Arts and Humanities and by up to $1000
from the student’s home department, for a possible total of up to $4000.</p>
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Studies of myth from any culture in any period of human history are eligible for consideration. For the purposes of this award, a “myth” is “a story that is sacred to and shared by a group of people who find important meaning in it, as conveyed through narrative,
art or ritual.” Eligible projects include, but are not limited to: the relationship between myths and religious practices, the uses of myth in literary and artistic productions, and the reuse of one culture’s myths by other cultures. Possible approaches include,
but are not limited to, the anthropological, the literary, the historical, and the folkloristic, as well as creative approaches that aim to re-present a myth as part of a new artistic product.</p>
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Candidates will be selected based on merit, although some preference will be given to proposals that cite specific need for funding for travel or other expenses related to research or to the performance or production of other artistic projects. Preference will
be given to candidates whose projects are part of a doctoral dissertation (with exceptions granted for students in departments that offer only a master’s degree).</p>
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Application Procedure and Deadline:</h3>
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Applications should be submitted through the webform linked<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://religion.osu.edu/iles-application" title="Link to Iles Award Application Form" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(186, 12, 47);">here<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>and
should include the following:</p>
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<li style="box-sizing:border-box">a 1200-word description of the project (with a suitable project title) and how the fellowship would aid it, including a statement of how much work has already been done on the project and how much would be completed during
the fellowship period;</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">a letter of support from the student’s advisor;</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">a letter from the chair of the student’s department, agreeing to supplement the award by a specified amount of up to $1000;</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">a curriculum vitae of up to two pages, including publications and presentations.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">[OPTIONAL] where appropriate, an explanation of how the funding will be spent (e.g. travel, cost of artistic or research materials, etc.)</li></ol>
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Applications for the fellowship must be made in advance of expenditures (there will be no post-facto awards); the funds must be spent within 12 months of the fellowship being awarded. The CSR reserves the right not to award a fellowship in a given year if none
of the applications are deemed eligible. Any unused available balance will be reinvested into the principal amount of the Iles Fund.</p>
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If selected for the award, the recipient shall submit to the director of CSR a 500-word essay on the state of their research or some other aspect of the way they spent the funding that can be used as a news item on the CSR website or in other CSR materials,
and a photo of either the recipient or some aspect of his or her project.</p>
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<strong style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bold">The application deadline for the 2022/2023 Iles Award is Friday, February 17, 2023.</strong></p>
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Please contact the Humanities Institute's administrative coordinator Nick Spitulski (<a href="mailto:spitulski.1@osu.edu" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(186, 12, 47);">spitulski.1@osu.edu</a>) with any questions.</p>
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<div dir="ltr">You can find similar information on the Awards page of our website
<a href="https://religion.oau.edu/awards" ms-outlook-mobile-sharing-link-user-text="true">
HERE</a>.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Cheers,</div>
<div dir="ltr">Savannah</div>
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