Travel Grants


Description

Funded through donations from friends and supporters of CSW|Streisand Center, travel grants assist UCLA graduate and undergraduate students with travel expenses related to academic or professional conference presentations and field research on women, gender, and sexuality.

For the Fall cycle (deadline in November), travel that occurs/occurred between July 1, 2024-June 30, 2025 will be considered. For the Winter cycle (deadline in February), travel that occurs/occurred between January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025 will be considered. If your application is selected, award will be paid via reimbursement based on receipts after travel is completed.

Amount

$500 maximum (award amount and number of awards vary).

Deadlines

Fall: November 1, 2024

Winter: February 28, 2025

Criteria

  • Travel for the fall cycle must occur on or between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025
  • Travel for the winter cycle must occur on or between January 1, 2025 and December 31, 2025
  • Awardees will be selected on the basis of merit
  • Awardees must be registered UCLA students. Awardees must also be registered during the quarter when travel occurs and when the reimbursement is processed. For summer, students must be enrolled in the preceding spring quarter and subsequent fall or winter quarters. If travel occurs between two cycles (i.e. June 27, 2025 – July 5, 2025), apply for the cycle in which you return.
  • Travel must be for research or a conference pertaining to women, gender, and sexuality
  • For conference travel, awardee must provide evidence that the paper was delivered at a conference
  • CSW|Streisand Center reimburses the awardee only after receiving original receipts for eligible travel expenses. Only electronic receipts will be accepted.
  • Awardee(s) will be honored at the CSW|Streisand Center Awards Celebration at UCLA on Thursday, May 15, 2025. Attendance is highly encouraged.

Special Notes

  • Students who are qualified under the CA Dream Act of 2011 are eligible to apply. Find detailed information on the Dream Act at www.financialaid.ucla.edu.
  • Students receiving financial aid are advised to consult with the Financial Aid Office about the potential effect of this award on their financial aid package.

To Apply

The application requires the following documents:

  1. Proposal describing research project or conference paper (maximum 2 single-spaced pages, including works cited)
  2. Curriculum Vitae/Resume
  3. Unofficial UCLA Transcripts (with most recent coursework)
  4. One Letter of Recommendation from a faculty member familiar with the research for which you are applying

Letter of Recommendation

Please have your letter writer submit your letter of recommendation to Eva Amarillas Diaz, eva@women.ucla.edu, by Friday, November 1, 2024.
YOUR APPLICATION IS NOT CONSIDERED COMPLETE UNLESS WE RECEIVE YOUR GOOGLE FORM AND YOUR LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION BY FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2024.

APPLY HERE

QUESTIONS?

For questions regarding CSW|Streisand Center awards, fellowships, and grants, please contact Management Services Officer Rosa Chung rosa@women.ucla.edu.

Past Recipients

  • Lika Balenović: Lika Balenović is a doctoral candidate in comparative literature whose research focuses on French and English-language speculative feminist thought (philosophy and fiction) at the intersection of sex, gender, labor, and reproduction. Her specialty is in later twentieth to twenty-first century work with a particular interest in the philosophy and fiction of French feminist scholar, Monique Wittig, and her influence on American feminist thought, queer theory, and speculative fiction (1970s–present).
  • Candace Hansen: Candace Hansen is a PhD candidate, drummer, educator, journalist, scholar, artist, and event producer currently studying and teaching at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and the UCLA Department of Gender Studies, writing for LA Times, Spin, and Los Angeles Magazine, and drumming for Alice Bag, dimber, Reckoner, and the Josie Wreck Noise Ensemble. Hansen believes in the power and potential of writing about culture, especially queer culture, as a tool of healing, recognition, and care that can push conversations from the critical lens of a fan writing for a more just world. Their forthcoming dissertation is rooted in their life as a queer punk drummer and explores how DIY trans and queer punk music and approaches to music-making are life-giving endeavors in dissonant time that exist in opposition to oppressive conditions and capitalist aesthetics.
  • Nathan Hoffmann: Nathan Hoffmann is a PhD candidate in sociology and MS student in statistics at UCLA. He studies how state policies and other national institutions affect the decisions and well-being of immigrants. One thread of his research studies how changing state policies affect queer people’s decisions to migrate and form same-sex partnerships. In a second thread of research, he studies how migration and education policies interact to shape the educational outcomes of young migrants. He has published articles in Social Forces, International Migration Review, and other venues.
  • Emily Kaner: Emily Kaner is a doctoral student at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health in the Department of Community Health Sciences. Her research prioritizes critical and feminist approaches to public health, with interests in the intersection of health and place, structural determinants of health, and understanding how work shapes health and wellbeing. Her previous qualitative and mixed-methods research explored how social and environmental factors influenced substance use and harm reduction practices. Kaner holds a master’s degree in city planning and a master’s degree in public health from the University of California, Berkeley.
  • Delaney Knorr: Delaney Knorr (she/her) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology interested in the intersections of race, health, and motherhood. Her dissertation explores the biological embodiment of discrimination on the placenta (a major factor in obstetric health disparities) as well as perinatal resilience factors.
  • Rebeca Martínez-Tibbles: Rebeca Martínez-Tibbles is a history PhD candidate at UCLA, specializing in women in Colonial Mexico, race and religion, marriage, and the Atlantic World. Her current dissertation project explores how women used bigamy to form companionate marriages in a Roman Catholic society that denied individuals the right to divorce. Rebeca argues that bigamy offered women an opportunity for a better matrimonial life. She examines how honor and race influenced the trials of women, as well as how these characteristics affected why women committed bigamy. Rebeca has received numerous awards, fellowships, and grants, including the Fulbright Hays-DDRA Fellowship. Her dissertation project was made possible by this award, which allowed her to conduct archival studies in Mexico City, Mexico, and Seville, Spain.
  • NaaKoshie Mills: NaaKoshie Mills is a PhD candidate in anthropology at UCLA and lecturer at Howard University. Her dissertation research examines the impact of race and racism in US foreign policymaking toward Sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on the diplomatic lives of Black American career officers in the Department of State.
  • Lori Pirinjian: Lori Pirinjian (she/her) is a PhD student in the UCLA Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures specializing in Armenian studies. Pirinjian’s research at UCLA centers around the 2017 domestic-violence law in Armenia and its representation of the ideological fluctuation being experienced by this state.
  • Ludmila Porto: Ludmila Porto is a third-year PhD student at the Department of Gender Studies. Her research focuses on how knowledge is produced and transmitted through activism supported by transnational feminist networks based in the US, Brazil, and the Caribbean. She examines how activism responds to shared intersecting oppression in the Americas through the building of transnational feminist solidarities. Porto holds a master’s degree and a PhD in linguistics from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. For the last few years, she has taught, researched, and published in applied linguistics, discourse analysis, and gender studies.
  • Nicole Prucha: Nicole Prucha is a PhD Candidate in the Department of English at UCLA. A scholar of affect theory, queer of color critique, and performance studies, she studies the role of loss in queer survival and kinship formations. Her dissertation explores how minoritarian subjects embody and perform feelings of lostness, loneliness, and longing in order to imagine something else. Her work is heavily informed by her own experiences as a multiracial queer woman and is indebted to José Muñoz, Alice Walker, Nina Simone, and her mother.
  • Anna Robinson-Sweet: Anna Robinson-Sweet is a third-year PhD candidate in the Department of Information Studies. Her dissertation research studies how communities impacted by incarceration create and use archives to imagine and enact abolitionist futures. As a scholar, organizer, and archivist, Robinson-Sweet seeks to uplift liberatory memory work. Robinson-Sweet is a graduate student researcher with the UCLA Community Archives Lab and organizes with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition and Prison Library Support Network. Her research has been published in Archivaria, American Archivist, and Journal for Contemporary Archival Studies.
  • Brenda Wang: Brenda Wang is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at UCLA. She is currently completing her dissertation, “Blindfold, Bandage: Beauty Projects in 20th Century Visions of Asiatic Racial Form,” which explores beauty as an embodied cultural project by which questions of desire, gender, and racial belonging are adjudicated. She received her BA in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania and her MPhil in modern and contemporary literature at the University of Cambridge. At UCLA, she has been the recipient of the Cota-Robles Fellowship.
  • Rebecca Woofter: Rebecca Woofter is a PhD candidate in community health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She holds a bachelor’s degree in history and political science from Emory University and a master of public health in epidemiology and biostatistics from Washington University in St. Louis. Her research focuses on inequities in reproductive and maternal health, particularly access to and quality of reproductive healthcare. Her dissertation uses quantitative and qualitative methods to examine mental health and healthcare during pregnancy and postpartum.
  • Wei Si Nic Yiu 姚煒詩 : Wei Si Nic Yiu 姚煒詩 (they/them) is a PhD candidate in gender studies at UCLA and a graduate of the Women and Gender Institute Master’s program at the University of Toronto, Canada. Their broad research interests include gender and migration, theories of care, queer theory, and Women of Color feminisms. Yiu’s current research project explores Chinese massage workers’ experience in the United States. Their work is informed and inspired by their own experiences of migration and care work as a queer Asian person in Hong Kong, Beijing, Toronto, and now Los Angeles.

View all 2023-2024 Award Recipients.