The ASFS currently offers three types of grants:
- ASFS Local Evens Grants
- ASFS Conference Travel Grants
- Food, Humanities and Racial Justice
- Fellowship Grants (see BIPOC Fellowship Grant page for more information)
Beginning in 2018, the ASFS began to offer a limited number of travel grants to graduate students, and as of 2020 independent scholars and adjunct instructors, to travel and present at the annual ASFS conference. The amount of money and the number of grants offered are determined by the ASFS Board. To qualify, one must have been an ASFS member the prior calendar year and the year in which the conference is taking place. The applicant must also be a student during the same academic year. If we cannot fund all eligible students, the grants will be awarded on a number of criteria including: distance from conference, merit of abstract, degree, and length of engagement with the ASFS.
The ASFS offers support for events such as workshops, symposia, and colloquia that take place between the main annual meetings. The theme and format of events is flexible, but all proposals should further the ASFS mission of promoting the interdisciplinary study of food and society.
Applicants must be current ASFS members. (Event participants need not be, but may be encouraged to join the association.) Applications are invited 2 times per year, with deadlines of October 15th and April 15th. Up to $6000 is available per year, and applicants may request any sum between $500 and $2000 per event. It is expected that host institutions will offer matched funding, whether cash or in-kind. Priority will be given to new applicants who have not been awarded a grant from ASFS.
Applications from outside the United States and North America are encouraged to apply. The committee will contact successful applicants within 1 month of the deadline. Event organizers will be required to report on the event for the ASFS newsletter.
Applicant details, please include the following:
Contact Information
Name
Job title, Institutional affiliation
Address
Phone
Email
Any co-applicants & their institutional affiliation
Co-applicants must also be ASFS members. Co-organisers who are not ASFS members should be indicated in the event proposal below.
Competition cycle
Note applicants must allow at least 3 months between the submission deadline and proposed event date.
October 15; April 15
Description of proposed event
Please provide details of your proposed event (no more than 750 words). This should include: date, venue, theme, format, organising team, speakers (confirmed/tbc), anticipated participants/numbers, publicity plans, outcomes/outputs. Please indicate how the proposed event aligns with the ASFS mission. Note that proposals for single-speaker events (ie, lectures) are unlikely to be considered.
How you will share outcomes of your event with the wider ASFS membership? (maximum 150 words)
Proposed budget
Please provide a detailed budget with brief justifications. Funding is flexible and can be requested for catering, printing, local transportation, speaker travel, etc.
How will your host institution(s) or partner organisation(s) contribute, either cash or in-kind?
List any alternate sources of funding (admission fees, supporting grants, etc.)
Expenses will be reimbursed following submission of receipts. Only in exceptional circumstances will funds be provided in advance. If this applies to you, please provide an explanation below.
Send your application to ASFSgrants@gmail.com
GRANT WINNERS
Spring, 2024
Philly Chef Conference, Drexel University, $2000
Rachel Sherman & Dr. Jonathan Deutsch
Fall 2023
Queer Food Conference: Cooking Out and Eating Out $2000
Dr. Megan Elias (Boston University) and Dr. Alex D. Ketchum (McGill University)
Fall 2022
Culinary heritage beyond locality: hybrid approaches to valorization, Department of Literary Theory & Cultural Studies at KU Leuven (Belgium) $500
Dr. Jenny Herman
Stealing Recipes: Ownership Claims and the Culinary Commons
Indiana University, Bloomington $1,000
Ariana Gunderson and Sucharita Kanjilal
Sustaining and Belonging: Access, Justice, and Able-bodiedness in the Food System $1500
Dr. Alice Julier (Chatham University) and Dr. Abby Wilkerson (The George Washington University)
Spring, 2021
ThinkFOOD conference: “Regeneration” $1075
Bard College at Simon’s Rock
Dr. Maryann Tebben
Spring, 2020
Food and Covid-19: Creating an Archive
Dr. Lucy Long
Spring, 2019
Tables in the Air: A Food Podcasting Colloquium
Boston University. Dec. 3, 2019. $1,250
Dr. Megan Elias
Agri-Food Studies Workshops
Washington University in St. Louis, Fall 2019. $500
Mr. Brad Jones
Black Food Matters: Contextualizations of Race, Place, and
Resistance in Food Movements
University of South Florida, February 28, 2020. $500
Ms. Laura Kihlstrom and Ms. Jacquelyn Heuer
Winter, 2019
UC Santa Cruz, May 10, 2019. $1250
Fall, 2018
Food Studies at Occidental College Workshops
Occidental College, Spring & Summer 2019. $2,000.
Dr. April Bullock of California State University, Fullerton and Dr. John Lang of Occidental College
Winter, 2018
Latinx Foodways in the New South
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, April 7, 2018. $1,000.
Drs. Colleen Hammelman & Consuelo Carr Salas
1st International Biannual Conference in Food and Communication
Queen Margaret University [Edinburgh, Scotland] September 20-21, 2018, $2,000.
Dr. Ana Tominc
Superfoods: A Workshop
Indiana University, March, 2019, $1,000.
Ms. Emma McDonell & Dr. Rick Wilk
Fall, 2017
Brown Speakers Series
Brown University, Winter 2017 & Spring 2018, $1,150.
Dr. Emily Contois
Circo de Gusto: A Surreal, Sensory Symposium
Culinary Institute of America, March 19, 2018, $2,000.
Drs. Beth Forrest & Willa Zhen