The ASA is pleased to offer travel grants for conference participants. The application period for the 2026 conference is April 22 – May 8.
Solidarity Grants
The ASA Solidarity Fund Travel Grants help susidize conference costs for contingent faculty, community-based scholars and artists, unemployed or underemployed scholars, and undergraduate students who will be presenting at the annual meeting. In addition to a partial travel reimbursement up to $400, the grant also provides a waiver for registration fees.
Eligibility
Priority will go to contingent faculty, community-based scholars and artists, unemployed or underemployed scholars, and undergraduate students. Graduate students should apply for the Baxter Travel Grant (see below). The ASA is particularly concerned with helping those who have no (or limited) support from their institutions or other sources, who incur substantial costs for travel to and from the convention, and who have not received travel reimbursement or emergency funds from the ASA in a prior year.
Annette K. Baxter Travel Grants
The Baxter travel grants provide partial travel reimbursement up to $400 to advanced graduate students who are members of the ASA by February 1 and will travel to the upcoming convention in order to present a paper on the annual meeting program.
Eligibility
Baxter Travel Grants are only for current ASA graduate student members enrolled in a degree-granting program who are in need of financial assistance to attend the Annual Meeting. (For contingent faculty, community-based scholars, artists, individuals affiliated with non-academic community groups, unemployed or underemployed scholars, and undergraduate students seeking financial support, please apply for an ASA Solidarity Grant.)
The ASA prioritizes helping those who have limited or no support from their institutions or other sources, who incur substantial costs for travel to and from the convention, and who have not received travel reimbursement or emergency funds from the ASA in a prior year. We endeavor to support as many Baxter Travel Grant applicants as possible; depending on the number of applicants and the funds available in a given year, it may not be possible to support all who apply.