ALAA Graduate Student Travel Award
Competition for the 2026 ALAA Graduate Student Travel Award
The ALAA Graduate Student Travel Award was created in 2017. The award, generously funded by former ALAA president Patricia Sarro, will provide $500 toward expenses related to attending the CAA annual conference, ALAA business meeting, and ALAA sponsored sessions. Funds may be put towards hotel costs, registration, or airfare/ground travel. The awardee need not be presenting (although presenters are encouraged to apply), but should demonstrate a specific need to attend sessions or visit archives in the conference city. Applications will be evaluated on the quality of the proposal, as well as financial need. A call for applications will be sent to the listserv each September and will be due at the end of October. The awardee will be selected by the executive committee and will be notified of their acceptance by mid-November. Funds will be paid upon receipt of the award, but awardee must submit receipts to ALAA verifying that funds have gone toward conference expenses (within 2 weeks of returning from the conference). The awardee is also expected to attend the ALAA business meeting at the conference where they will be recognized as an award recipient. The awardee will also receive one year of complimentary ALAA membership.
Call for submissions will be announced.
2024 WINNERS
ALAA Graduate Student Travel Award
Eric Mazariegos, PhD Candidate, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
“The ALAA Graduate Travel Award supported my first-time participation in the CAA Annual Conference, where I presented in the session “The State of Central American Art History: Foundations and Future Directions” and attended ALAA events that enriched my knowledge of Latin American art. While in New York, I also visited the Hispanic Society of America and viewed a temporary exhibition featuring an early 19th-century Mexican folding screen, contemporaneous with the Guatemalan biombo I study in my dissertation, making the visit especially significant for my research.”
Maria Beatriz Carrión, PhD Candidate in Art History, CUNY Graduate Center
“The ALAA Graduate Student Travel Award allowed me to travel to NYC to present at the CAA panel The Power of Body Transformations and receive critical feedback for a dissertation chapter I’m currently working on. Additionally, I was able to see archives pertaining to artists I am investigating at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) and at MoMA. ”