SHA 2023 Conference Student Travel Award Opportunities

Dear SHA Members,

The SHA will be offering a number of student travel awards for the upcoming 2023 Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, January 4-7, 2023.  Details on all of the travel awards are on the SHA website at: https://sha.org/about-us/awards-and-prizes/  Please review the application requirements and deadline for each award before applying.

The student travel awards for the SHA 2023 Conference include:

The 2023 Cannetti-King Lisbon Student Travel Awards, which will provide six student finalists with $2,000 grants for their travel to the January 2023 annual meeting in Lisbon, Portugal. The goal of the award is to enable these students to attend the conference and present a paper on their current research.

The 2023 Québec City Award/Bourse de Québec will be given to assist French-speaking students to attend the annual meeting and to promote their participation in Society activities. The cash prize is for the amount of interest accrued annually on the initial endowment, not to exceed $750.

The 2023 Ed and Judy Jelks Student Travel Awards will provide $750 in funding to two students to help defray their travel expenses to Lisbon to present at the 2023 Conference.

The 2023 Harriet Tubman Student Travel Awards will also provide $750 in funding to two students to help defray their travel expenses to Lisbon to present at the 2023 Conference.  The goals of this travel award are to increase diversity and to encourage student involvement at the meetings. Diversity is inclusive of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, abilities, and socioeconomic background. Applications are encouraged from diverse populations.

The ACUA will be offering its 2023 ACUA George Fischer Student Travel Award providing $1,000 to fund travel costs for the upcoming SHA Conference in Lisbon, Portugal for an international student presenting a paper on an underwater or maritime archaeology topic at this Conference. International students are considered to be those students residing or studying in a country other than the country where the conference is being held; for the 2023 award, that is any student not currently studying in Portugal.

The ACUA will also be offering the ACUA and Recon Offshore Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Student Travel Conference Award, providing $1,000 to defray travel costs for a student who is presenting a paper or poster on an underwater or maritime archaeology topic at the 2023 annual meeting in Lisbon, Portugal. The goals of this travel award are to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion and to encourage student involvement at the meetings. Diversity is inclusive of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, abilities, and socioeconomic background. Applicants that self-identify as diverse are encouraged to apply.

Students may apply for multiple travel awards, but can only receive one award.

We urge SHA student members to take advantage of these travel award opportunities to attend the 2023 Conference in January.  Please review the submission guidelines for each award at: https://sha.org/about-us/awards-and-prizes/