Travel Grants
Four endowment funds support the travel grants program of the Conference on Christianity and Literature. These funds honor distinguished scholars whose faithful and visionary leadership proved crucial to the formation and subsequent development of the organization.
The Clyde S. Kilby Memorial Travel Endowment
The Paul and June Schlueter Endowed Travel Fund
The Charles A. Huttar Fund
The Roy Battenhouse Fund
Travel Grants For Scholars and Writers
The CCL Travel Grant for Writers and Scholars is given to honor scholars working in the area of Christianity and literature, who are members of CCL, and who are seeking support for travel or for writing or literary research. The grant will fund travel expenses in furtherance of the recipient’s scholarship or creative work.
The maximum grant for travel, research, and writing will be $2000.
The annual deadline for the submission of grant proposals is November 15.
To apply for the CCL Travel Grant for Writers and Scholars, please submit in electronic form (pdf or text file):
A cover sheet that includes your name and title, your postal address, email address, and phone number. In addition, the sheet should contain the title of your project and the location(s) to which you will travel to undertake it.
Along with the cover sheet, please include a clear, concise description of the work you propose to do. The proposal should contain the three following components:
1. A 1-2 page summary that highlights your goals and describes the significance of the work you intend to undertake. If you are planning to work on a scholarly project, please explain its significance by comparing your work to that of other scholars in your field and by indicating the importance of your research and writing to your own scholarly development. Should you be proposing to write a work of fiction or creative non-fiction, or a series of poems, please situate your project in relation to the work of other creative artists and within the context of your own previous work.
2. An updated c.v, including educational training, current and past academic appointments, scholarly or artistic publications, awards, and presentations.
3. A brief statement describing how the success of your project may be evaluated.
Applications must be no more than five pages in length, excluding the cover sheet; do not send additional materials.
Please send your electronic files as attachments to the CCL Vice President:
Dr. Carissa Turner Smith, csmith@csuniv.edu
Be sure to include the phrase “CCL Travel Grant for Writers and Scholars” in the subject line of your message.
Award recipients will be notified in mid-late December. Recipients should acknowledge the Conference on Christianity and Literature and the CCL Travel Grant for Writers and Scholars in any publications resulting from the travel. Receipts for reimbursement should be submitted to csmith@csuniv.edu within two weeks of the travel’s completion.
Travel Grants For Conferences
In order to encourage graduate students to participate in regional meetings, the CCL offers up to $500 for each CCL Regional Conference to meet travel expenses and conference registration fees for graduate students presenting papers. This money may be divided among as many applicants as the region sees fit. Applicants must be CCL members in good standing and are expected to stay for the full conference at which they present a paper. Students may not receive an award more than twice. Preference is given to dissertation-level students whose research will be most enhanced by conference participation. If graduate students’ needs have been met, the conference director may then make conference travel grant funds available to independent scholars, adjuncts, and faculty lacking travel funding.
CCL Regional Conference Travel Grant applicants should email the following material to the regional conference host:
1. A letter, not to exceed 400 words, stating the session in which the student is enrolled and explaining how this session relates to the student's dissertation in progress. (In the case of a later-career scholar, the letter should mention the circumstances surrounding the lack of institutional support and state how the session relates to publication potential.)
2. An informational (not evaluative) letter from the student's Director of Graduate Studies or Department Chair providing date of approval of the student's dissertation topic; expected date of completion; date when all other degree requirements were completed; statement of departmental policy on travel support for graduate students; and amount of funding applicant will receive (if any) toward attendance of the meeting for which the student seeks assistance. (In the case of a later-career scholar with institutional affiliation, a letter from a department chair confirming the lack of institutional support will suffice.)
CCL Regional Conference Travel Grant recipients should send receipts for reimbursement to the CCL Vice President (csmith@csuniv.edu) within two weeks of the conference’s completion.
