Purdue Library Research Travel Assistance

The Purdue University Archives and Special Collections offers travel assistance for scholars whose research cannot progress satisfactorily without consulting materials onsite and whose visit would not be feasible without financial support. Two awards (up to $2,000 each) are disbursed each reviewing period to individual scholars studying content represented in Archives and Special Collections’ collections.

Subject areas strongly represented in archival and manuscript collections include the history of flight and space, the history of women affiliated with Purdue University or the state of Indiana, the history of psychedelics for medicinal and healing purposes, and the history of Purdue University, including papers of Purdue alumni; as well as records of the University departments, reflecting the founding, growth and evolution of the land-grant university for the State of Indiana and its mission to provide education in the agricultural and mechanical arts. Rare book collections include the history of engineering, science, and transportation, the history of economics and political thought, the history of typography and book design, and books about Indiana history or written by Indiana authors.

Preference will be given to applicants needing funds to travel from out of state or out of the country and who plan to publish or publicly disseminate the scholarly results of their research. Funds may be used for business related expenses incurred by the researcher in association with his or her research, travel, and use of Archives and Special Collections facilities and collections as well as costs in making the research broadly available to the scholarly community.