Clements Center's Interdisciplinary Research Grants for
SMU Graduate Students Working in the American Southwest or Borderlands

The William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies offers a small number of travel grants to support research on the American Southwest and the borderlands by SMU graduate students needing to visit sites beyond the campus of SMU.  Preference will be given to students who have passed their oral exams and are working on dissertations (but who have not exhausted their five-year enrollment at SMU). The Center will reimburse expenses for travel, research materials, and research-related activities, up to $500 per week.

Submissions are due March 15, 2013.

Graduate students who wish to apply should submit a proposal, approximately 750 words in length, which includes:

1. A curriculum vita, which includes a mailing address, telephone number and email address.

2. A description of the nature, scope, and significance of the topic as it relates to the Southwest.

3. A statement about how the research activities or acquisition of materials will enhance the quality of the work on the topic.

4. A budget.

5. Other potential or actual sources of funding.

6. The projected time for completion of the project.

7. A letter of recommendation from the professor who is supervising the work.

If you have questions about your eligibility, please contact Clements Center associate director Sherry L. Smith or Clements Department of History Graduate Advisor John Chavez.

Send applications via email to Clements Center assistant director Ruth Ann Elmore by March 15, 2013.

For lists of previous recipients, click on the year to the left.