Student Awards

This year’s Student Travel Awardees are:

Lindon Dedvukaj
Carina Ahrens
Marie Tano
Célia Richy

Gan Qiao
Chan Le Xuan
Wilmar López
Justyna King
Brandon J. Martínez

Congratulations!  We look forward to seeing you at NWAV51!

The LILLIAN B. STUEBER STUDENT NWAV PRESENTATION PRIZE

Description

This is a prize for the best student presentation that treats variation in languages that have been missing from or are less frequently represented at NWAV.

Eligibility

Students who have collaborated with faculty (or post-docs) are eligible, but the award committee takes this into consideration during the final deliberation.

Posters are also eligible.

The prize is worth $250 USD awarded to the student before the final plenary.

NWAV 51 Student Travel Awards 

We are pleased to offer a competitive award to help cover travel costs to NWAV 51 for graduate students in sociolinguistics who are members of underrepresented minorities.  To be considered for an award, students must be nominated by a faculty member or instructor. 

Faculty or instructors at any institution are invited to send a letter nominating a graduate student by the deadline to nwav51@qc.cuny.edu with “Travel Award Nomination” in the subject line. The letter should not exceed 250 words. No other application material should be forwarded. The deadline for nomination letters is Friday, September 15, 2023. 

Award Details:  

Travel award: Award recipients will receive a travel stipend of US $650 to help cover their expenses for travel and lodging.  Note that NWAV 51 is an in-person only event, with no remote participation, so all award recipients must travel to New York to attend the conference.  

Mentoring: NWAV 51 will have pop-up mentoring sessions; award recipients will be encouraged to participate and connect with an established researcher.  This will give them an opportunity to discuss professional goals and opportunities with the mentor. 

Registration award:  Conference registration fees (at the student rate) will be waived for award recipients. 

Goal: The goal of these travel grants is to encourage attendance by graduate students from backgrounds that are underrepresented at NWAV (e.g., first-generation university students, low-income students, African American, Latine, Indigenous students, students with disabilities, etc.). Letter writers should include a brief justification regarding how the nominee’s background relates to this goal. “Underrepresented” should be interpreted relative to local and personal contexts. It is up to the letter writer to make the case. Letters should also address how attending NWAV 51 will benefit the student academically.  

Eligibility:

Students nominated as underrepresented are eligible for the award:
If they are graduate students at the time of NWAV 51
If they are enrolled in either a linguistics program or a related program (e.g., English, Sociology, Anthropology, Africana studies, Psychology, Computer Science, or a language program with a concentration or research program in sociolinguistics).

Eligibility for the award is not limited to students who are presenting. Any qualified student who will attend NWAV 51 is eligible to be nominated regardless of whether or not they are presenting at the conference. 

Further details: The letter writer and the nominee do not need to be from the same institution. The letter writer does not need to be attending NWAV 51, in a tenured or tenure-track position, or at a North American institution.