Call For Proposals: Dr. Stephen F. Lintner History of Discoveries Field Research Award
The Dr. Stephen F. Lintner Field Research Travel Award supports graduate students whose scholarship on the history of geographic discoveries requires direct engagement with the landscapes, environmental settings, and cultural contexts in which exploration occurred. The program reflects the value of field observation for understanding how explorers encountered terrain, interacted with local environments and communities, and interpreted unfamiliar regions. It is intended for graduate students whose research benefits from on-site investigation of routes, ecological features, landforms, cultural settings, or other place-based elements essential to reconstructing historical experiences of discovery.
Two awards of up to $1,500 each may be granted annually.
This program is open exclusively to graduate students enrolled in a master’s or doctoral program at an accredited college or university and who are members of the Society for the History of Discoveries (student membership is $25). Eligible proposals should clearly demonstrate the importance of field travel to the research question and show how direct engagement with place will strengthen the analysis and interpretation of historical material. Students working in history, geography, environmental studies, anthropology, cartography, or related fields are welcome to apply.
Application Deadline: April 15, 2026