Luce/ACLS Predissertation-Summer Travel Grants

Predissertation travel grants provide funding for graduate students to explore venues, make preliminary research arrangements, and gain advice from Chinese scholars that prepares them for research in China. Provides $5,000 for a preliminary visit of 3-4 month to China to prepare for beginning basic research for the dissertation. Graduate students who have already begun research in China are not eligible. An applicant must be enrolled in a PhD program at a university in the United States or Canada. A working knowledge of Chinese is required.