Center for Communal Studies Annual Prizes & Research Travel Grant--Winners Announced

Casey Harison Discussion

The Center for Communal Studies at the University of Southern Indiana annually invites submissions for its prize competition for the best undergraduate and graduate student papers on historic or contemporary communal groups, intentional communities and utopias.

The Center for Communal Studies at the University of Southern Indiana also annually invites applications for a Research Travel Grant to fund research at the Communal Studies Collection at USI's David L. Rice Library. The Communal Studies Collection's rich archival materials hold information on over 600 historic and contemporary communal societies, utopias, and intentional communities. Applicants may be graduate students or established scholars in the United States or abroad from any discipline that involves the study of communalism (such as history, American Studies, English, anthropology, economics, sociology, etc.).

WINNERS OF THE 2017 UNDERGRADUATE & GRADUATE PRIZES AND RESEARCH TRAVEL GRANT

Undergraduate Prize of $250 to Summer Jones of Grinnell College for:

"Striving for Eden: Working Towards Equality in Two Virginia Communes"

Graduate Prize of $500 to Gary Stein, of the University of Southern California for:
"Building a Communal Environment: Back-to-the-Land in Mendocino"

Research Travel Grant of $2,000 to Lauren Griffiths of Texas Tech University for her project on:
“When Does a Pilgrim Become a Resident?: Apprenticeship Pilgrimage and Yoga Communes”

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The Center for Communal Studies promotes the study of historic and contemporary communal groups, intentional communities, and utopias. Established in 1976 at the University of Southern Indiana, it encourages and facilitates meetings, classes, scholarships, publications, networking and public interest in communal groups past and present, here and abroad.

Contact: Casey Harison, Director
Center for Communal Studies
University of Southern Indiana
Evansville, IN 47712 USA
charison@usi.edu

tel. 812.465.7150