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Samuel and Marion Merrill Graduate Student Travel Grants

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$500

Due: November 1, 2026

No min. GPA required

No transcripts required

Description

The Samuel and Marion Merrill Graduate Student Travel Grants, supported by a bequest from the Merrill trust, are given annually to help sponsor the travel-related costs of graduate students who are confirmed as participants on the OAH Conference on American History program and who incur expenses traveling to the conference. Graduate students who are PhD candidates and who are presenting a paper or serving as a commentator on a session or panel are eligible to apply. Priority will be given to dissertation-stage doctoral candidates with decreasing priority given to students based on the year of matriculation in their respective PhD programs. Applicants must email their paper title or panel title, with an abstract and a CV (indicating their anticipated year of completion of the PhD), and a paragraph describing why it is important for them to attend the conference as a PDF. Applicants must also include the dates for their years of graduate studies (MA and PhD), if they have received additional financial support for attending the conference, if they have received any past OAH travel awards, if they are applying for other OAH travel awards, and if, in addition to presenting, they organized the panel. Please visit the award's website or contact the Organization of American Historians for more information.

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Level of Study

Graduate Student

Majors

History

Scholarship Type

Master's Degree