ASFS Grants

The ASFS currently offers three types of grants:


ASFS Conference Travel Grants

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.

Beginning in 2019, the ASFS has also offered ASFS conference travel grants to ASFS board members and fellows. These grants are given to those who either are underfunded or have no institutional funding. These are essential due to the ASFS board holding its annual meeting at the conference (and a requirement of being on the board is attendance at the annual meeting). These grants are meant to encourage a vibrant pool of candidates to the board. If there are more applicants and funding, board members will receive preference over fellows; judging is done by 3 former board members.
Notice of the application process dates will be announced via the ASFS Listserv.

ASFS Local Event Grant Application

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 

NYU, TBA. $1,250
Dr. Amy Bentley
Finding Comfort (and Discomfort) in Foodways During the Conorovirus Pandemic
Center for Food and Culture, TBA. $1200

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

Farming While Black: African Diasporic Wisdom for Farming and Food Justice at NYU
NYU, February 6, 2019. $750
Dr. Krishnendu Ray, Ms. Deborah Ni & Ms. Claudia Navas
The Future of Critical Food Studies
UC Santa Cruz, May 10, 2019. $1250
Ms. Erica Zurawski & Ms. Halie Kampman
Cooking Identities, Tasting Memories: the Heritage of Food
University of Cambridge, May 10-11, 2019. $1250
Ms. Rebecca Haboucha
Making Levantine Cuisine: A Critical Food Studies Symposium
Georgetown University, June 7-8, 2019. $1250
Ms. Anny Gaul  & Dr. Graham Pitts

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