Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College Chicago, Travel Grants Applications and Proposals Sought - Application deadline: February 1, 2015

CBMR travel grants of up to $1,000 are available  and are awarded on a competitive basis  to applicants who demonstrate the ability to  launch and complete a scholarly, performance- based, or otherwise creative research project  that significantly utilizes holdings in the  CBMR’s collections (visit http://www.colum.edu/cbmr/library/archives/index.html). Applications are accepted from teachers, independent researchers and scholars, performers, conductors, composers, multi- media artists, and graduate students in all genres of black music and from other disciplines. Faculty members are encouraged to recommend this grant program to their graduate students who are writing dissertations and theses or preparing for performances and recordings. Application deadlines are February 1 and September 1. Eligibility for these travel grants is restricted to those who reside or attend school beyond commuting distance of the Center for Black Music Research (more than 100 miles from Chicago).  The grants are supported with funds that have been given to the Center in honor of CBMR founder and director emeritus Samuel A. Floyd Jr. and in memory of Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson.  Additional information and application forms are available at http://www.colum.edu/cbmr/what_we_do/fellowships/travel.html. You may donate to this fund on the CBMR website or by creating a personal record in the CBMR’s new online Active Net database.

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