Nicole LaRose Travel Grant
The Nicole LaRose Travel Grant provides funding to offset travel costs for graduate students presenting their work at the Society for Utopian Studies annual meeting. The society anticipates awarding a small number of LaRose grants each year, generally for $500.
To be considered for this grant, please send your presentation proposal for the 2023 meeting, a budget proposal, and a recent c.v. to Carter Hanson, (acting) Awards Chair by the CFP deadline (August 4, 2023): carter.hanson@valpo.edu
On the budget proposal, please list other resources you have available from your home institution, research grants, or other sources. Selection criteria include:
1) The quality of the paper proposal/abstract, with attention to its contribution to utopian studies
2) The soundness of the proposed budget
3) A demonstrated commitment to the society, as evidenced by repeat attendance and participation in the life of the society.
Grant winners will be notified when conference acceptances go out.
The Nicole LaRose Travel Grant has been awarded to:
2022
Justin Chandler (Miami University), “Incorporated Selves: Looking Backward, Perspectival
Captivity, and the Process of Utopia”
Zebadiah Kraft (Indiana University of Pennsylvania), “Possibility in Destruction: Zombie
Narratives of Renewal and Utopia”
Katrin Isabel Schmitt (University of Konstanz, Germany), “Picking up the Pieces: Rebuilding
Community in Post-Apocalyptic Literature”
Brit Schulte (University of Texas, Austin), “Crafting Toward Utopia: Making and Unmaking with Zines”
[2020 / 2021: No conferences held due to Covid-19 pandemic]
2019
Emrah Atasoy (Hacettepe University, Ankara), “Surveying Utopianism and
Utopian Thought in Turkish Literature: Exemplary Utopias and Dystopias”
Zebadiah Kraft (Indiana University of Pennsylvania), “Recovering Transpacific
Utopian Influences in Early American Literature”
Samadrita Kuiti (University of Connecticut), “Feminist Utopian Longing:
Interfaith Sisterhood and Anticolonial Resistance in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s
Sultana’s Dream and Padmarag”
2018
Raphael Kabo, “’Life! Life! Life!’: The Precarious Utopianism of Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140”
Graeme Pente, “From Paris to Texas: French Fourierists in Power and in Exile, 1848-1857”
Molly Reed, “Regenerating Body, Land, Society: Fourierism and Non-Human Nature”
2017
Ryan Joyce, “A ‘Prophetic Vision of the Past’: Édouard Glissant’s Maroon Utopianism”
Can Mert Kökerer, “Art and Politics in Freetown Christiania: Representing Discontent through Artistic Practice”
2016
Verena Adamik
Jonathan Hanna
Burcu Kuheylan
2015
2014
2013
2012