Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium and Funding Support

Contact Name: Cecilia Flanagan
Contact Email: c.flanagan@uci.eduThe UCI School of Humanities, in partnership with the Division of Undergraduate Education, encourage you to apply to participate in the Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium (details below) at Johns Hopkins University.  Up to five students will receive financial support to present their paper at the Symposium and reimburse them for registration, round-trip airfare, lodging, and meals (up to $1,300 per student).

To apply for funding from the School of Humanities and the Division of Undergraduate Education, you must:

(1) find and work with a faculty member as your mentor;

(2) submit your research paper and an abstract along with a letter of support from you faculty mentor to Associate Dean Yong Chen (y3chen@uci.edu) by January 10, 2020 - before you submit your application online for the Symposium at Johns Hopkins University;

(3) submit a report about your experience at the Symposium and share it with UCI Humanities students upon your return.

Please feel free to contact Associate Dean Yong Chen if you have any further questions.

The Johns Hopkins University’s first annual Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium will be a new annual two-day event at their main campus in Baltimore, Maryland. It will offer students across the country the chance to disseminate their humanities research on a national scale. The event will be this spring, April 3rd and 4th, 2020 and the application portal is now open.

This symposium is open to undergraduate students from any two-year or four-year college or university who would like to present their original scholarship in the humanities. We hope to have 400 participants this year and will also be offering a select number of travel grants to help students afford participation. In addition to the multiple panels of student papers and presentations (including original creative works), we will also have a wonderful keynote delivered by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr and multiple professional development panels featuring graduate students and faculty in our humanities departments and centers. Students studying all areas of the humanities are welcome to attend.

Deadlines
Registration now open
Abstract Submission Deadline: January 24, 2020
Early Registration Deadline: February 21, 2020
Final Registration Deadline: March 6, 2020
Conference Dates: April 3-4, 2020

All deadlines are at 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.