Ira Unamboowe Graduate Student Travel Grants
AISLS will make a travel grant of $400 to any graduate student who gives a paper or acts as a discussant concerning Sri Lanka at the 2024 Annual Conference on South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. These awards are named after Ira Unamboowe, the Executive Director of the AISLS Colombo Center from 2004 to 2015. Applicants must be individual members of AISLS as of April 1st, 2024, or enrolled at an institution that is a member of AISLS. Individuals living in Madison at the time of the conference are not eligible.
Individuals whose papers are accepted for the conference program should contact John Rogers at us.director.aisls [at] gmail.com as soon as possible after presenting their paper, and provide the following information.
- 1) your name and the university where you are enrolled as a graduate student
- 2) the title of your paper
- 3) a statement that you presented the paper in person
- 4) whether or not you are a US citizen (this does not affect eligibility)
- 5) the address where you want your check sent
