The GPSG Travel Award has enabled me to attend my field’s premier conference, giving me the opportunity to engage with other scholars whose insights about the field push me to think creatively, ethically, and intersectionally. Being relieved of the financial burden of conference travel, I’ve been free to enjoy the […]
I had a great experience presenting my work at ASC 2016. I have widen my professional and academic network, and am looking forward to collaborating with some of them. I had the opportunity to demonstrate my work to a lot of academics, contribute to research for mentally ill offenders, and receive suggestions and critiques. Receiving the […]
The GPSG travel grant provided much needed funding to travel to Columbus, OH for the Symposium on Indigenous Languages and Cultures of Latin America (ILCLA/STLILLA – https://clas.osu.edu/ilcla). This was my first opportunity to present material from my preliminary dissertation research at a conference and I received helpful feedback from a diverse audience of folklorists, anthropologists, indigenous rights activists, and teachers of indigenous languages. The […]
The Fall 2016 GPSG travel award enabled me to attend the 2016 Society for Ethnomusicology conference in Washington DC where I was able to raise my profile on the academic job market, to advance my intellectual development, and to strengthen my professional capacity to mobilize my research in matters of music […]
As a graduate student, it is important to attend conferences to broaden my scientific horizons and further my professional development. The GPSG Travel Award has helped make my attendance at the Gordon Research Conference: Gaseous Ions affordable. -Josey Topolski
