[Csrfac] FINAL REMINDER!! Applications for 2019 CSR Iles Award for Graduate Study of Myth (Due 2/15/19)

[Dove, Sarah J.]

FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT!!!

This email is a reminder that to notify any and all who might be interested in applying for this award that the deadline is approaching...


The Center for the Study of Religion is very pleased to announce the eighth iteration of 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.



More specifically, the Robert L. and Phyllis J. Iles Award for Graduate Study of Myth, 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 supplemented by up to $1000 from the student’s home department, for a possible total up to $4000.



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.



Candidates will be selected based on merit, although some preference will be given to proposals that cite specific need for funding for travel of 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).



Applications should include the following:

1)      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;

2)      where appropriate, an explanation of how the funding will be spent (e.g., approximate cost of an air-travel ticket, cost of artistic materials);

3)      a letter of support from the student’s advisor;

4)      a letter from the chair of the student’s department, agreeing to supplement the award by a specified amount of up to $1000;

5)      a curriculum vitae of up to two pages, including publications and presentations.

All applications should be submitted via the application form posted at https://religion.osu.edu/2019-iles-application
and must be received by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday, February 15, 2019, in order for a recipient of the award to be selected prior to spring break. Please contact the Humanities Institute’s administrative coordinator Nick Spitulski (spitulski.1 at osu.edu<mailto:spitulski.1 at osu.edu>) with any questions.

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.  We reserve the right not to award a fellowship in a given year if none of the applications is deemed eligible.  Any unused available balance will be reinvested into the principal amount of the Iles Fund.

Within one month of having completed the work for which funding was awarded, the recipient shall submit to the director of the 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.



For additional information about the Iles Award, please visit http://religion.osu.edu/awards.
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