Scholarships awarded by the World History Association
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The World History Association offers a number of scholarships to attend the annual WHA conference, including the WHA World Scholar Travel Fund (for scholars outside of North America) and the William H. McNeill Teacher Scholarship (for K–12 and community college teachers) and conference fee waivers (for students).
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OER Project free registration for K-12 educators:
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Thanks to the OER Project, we can offer the first 40 eligible K-12 teachers who apply free registration at the conference. This is a rolling deadline. If you are an eligible K-12 teacher planning to attend the conference, please apply.
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Deadline: Rolling, beginning December 1 before the conference year
Eligibility: Applicants must be current K-12 educators
Notification: Typically within a few days of receipt of application
William H. McNeill Teacher Fellowship for travel support and registration fee waivers at the annual conference:
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​William H. McNeill (1917-2016) (picture at right) was a pioneering American historian who spent much of his career teaching world history at the University of Chicago. In addition to inspiring scores of young historians at the University of Chicago, McNeill was well known for his more than 20 books and numerous other publications that argued that contact and exchange among civilizations is what drives human history forward. He first published his approach in The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (1963).
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When McNeill retired in 1987, he noted in an interview that “History has to look at the whole world. And that means you have to know how the rest of the world is, how it got to be the way it is.”
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The World History Association is able to offer one William H. McNeill Teacher Fellowship annually, which provides up to $500 for travel and registration at the conference to a K-14 teacher presenting an individual paper at the conference.
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Deadline: April 1
Eligibility: Applicants must be current K-14 teachers who have had a paper accepted at the conference.
Notification: by April 20
William H. McNeill (1917-2016)
World Scholar Travel Fellowship for travel support and registration fee waivers at the annual conference:
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A single World Scholar Travel Fellowship is available to attendees, with preference given to applicants who are conferees attending from outside the United States who do not have any travel funding from their home institutions. The fellowship consists of round-trip air fare arranged by the WHA (this may cover the cost in full or in part on a case-by-case basis), accommodation at the conference, conference registration, and a modest per diem. All possible attempts at securing other funding should be made prior to applying for the fellowship.
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The World Scholar Travel Fellowship is offered on a competitive basis. Eligibility for the fellowship is based on acceptance by the Conference Program Committee of an individual paper, whether or not part of an organized panel, or a poster for the poster session. No person who has received a travel fellowship in a previous year may apply for another fellowship. Applicants must be willing to apply for and finance their own visas to the conference site.
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Deadline: April 1
Eligibility: Open to all who have had papers accepted for the conference, but preference is given to applicants attending the annual conference from outside the United States who do not have travel funding from their home institutions. All possible attempts at securing other funding should. be made prior to applying for the fellowship. No previous fellowship recipients are eligible. Applicants must be willing to apply for and finance their own visas to the conference site.
Notification: by April 20
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