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International Initiative Report (2006)
International Initiative Mellon Funds
Fifty-four international scholars applied for travel grants to attend the Oakland annual meeting. A selection committee of members of the International Committee reviewed the applications and ranked them on a number of criteria, including American studies leadership, scholarly accomplishment, and representational value (i.e. coming from underrepresented areas or constituencies). We were able to provide funding for 41 candidates, and additional presidential funding supported another applicant. So 42 of the 54 applicants received travel grants.
Again, we were able to cost-share with the USCET to support a grantee from China and with the National Science Council of Taiwan to support six grantees from Taiwan. The NSC is providing all but the registration costs for three of these grantees. After the Mellon competition was concluded, we were informed that the Taiwan NSC will fully fund an additional scholar to attend the Oakland meeting.
This years grantees come from Brazil, South Africa, Germany, Argentina, Mexico, Russia, Belarus, Hungary, New Zealand, Vietnam, China, Taiwan, the Netherlands, Canada, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland, India, Spain, and Israel/Palestine. We were particularly pleased to see the increase in scholars from Latin America (two each from Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico), a region previously underrepresented.
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