The Benjamin Franklin Travel Scholarships are grants amounting to €3,000 aimed at covering accommodation and maintenance in research stays in the United States under the American Studies framework and according to the following objectives:
- To cooperate in the internalization of the Universidad de Alcalá.
- To encourage the academic training of UAH researchers in the United States.
- To train new Doctors in American Studies.
- To establish contact with American universities and institutions.
- To reinforce the figure of the “Franklin Researcher”.
These scholarships address to UAH professors and students of the PhD Program in American Studies of the Instituto Franklin-UAH.
There are four types of scholarships that have different characteristics.
As for type A, there is a minimum stay of 15 consecutive days within this call.
As for type B, there is a minimum stay of 1 month within this call.
- Type A: Educational and research staff of the Universidad de Alcalá who want to carry out a research stay in a United States university or research center related to the priority lines of research of this call.
- Type B: Educational and research staff of the Universidad de Alcalá who want to carry out a research stay in a United States university or research center related to the priority lines of research of medicine
- Type C: Educational and research staff of the Universidad de Alcalá who want to carry out a research stay in a United States university or research center related to the priority lines of research of this call at Universidad de Alcalá.
- Type D: Students of the Ph.D. Program in American Studies of the Instituto Franklin-UAH.
These scholarships are restricted to the framework of American Studies, especially to Social Sciences and Humanities.
Type A, B, and C:
- The researcher undertakes to give a conference and/or organize a seminar about the results of his/her research after the stay in the United States or Spain (for scholarship type C).
- The researcher shall handle a research memory related to the studied topic after finishing the stay. This research memory will be published on the Instituto Franklin-UAH website and Annual Report.
- The researcher should undertake to collaborate in Diálogo Atlántico blog of the Instituto Franklin-UAH.
Type D:
- The researcher shall be enrolled in the Ph.D. Program in American Studies of the Instituto Franklin-UAH.
- The research plan shall be previously approved by the Academic Committee.
- The researcher shall handle a research memory related to the studied topic after finishing the stay. This research memory will be published on the Instituto Franklin-UAH website and Annual Report.
- The researcher undertakes to defend his/her doctoral thesis in the Ph.D. Program of the Instituto Franklin-UAH within three years from the research stay.
- The researcher shall indicate in his/her doctoral thesis that his/her research has been carried out with a scholarship from the Instituto Franklin-UAH.
The selection will be made by a Committee elected for that purpose by Instituto Franklin-UAH. The beneficiary will be notified by email and the official resolution will be published on the Instituto Franklin-UAH website.
2019. 2 Benjamin Franklin Scholarships to PhD candidates of the PhD Program in American Studies:
- Daniel Bustillo Hurtado. “Las relaciones de Diego de Gardoqui con los EE.UU. y el “American Southwest”. McNeil Center for Early American Studies de la University of Pennsylvania.
- Marcos Todeschini. “Dispatches from the Old Man Overseas: Ernest Hemingway´s Journalism”. University of Washington.
2016. 2 Benjamin Franklin Scholarships to PhD candidates of the PhD Program in American Studies:
- Noelia Gregorio Fernández. “The Rebel of Chicano Cinema: El cine de Robert Rodríguez”. Columbia University;
- Daniel Ureña Uceda. “El uso del español en las campañas presidenciales de Estados Unidos: el caso de 2016”. The International Republican Institute (IRI).
2015. 1 Benjamin Franklin Scholarship to a PhD candidate of the PhD Program in American Studies:
- Paloma Villamil Agraso. “Ecofeminist Spiritualities in Science Fiction”. University of Central Florida
2014. 1 Benjamin Franklin Scholarship to a professor and researcher of the Universidad de Alcalá.
- José Santiago Fernández Vázquez “Reescrituras contemporáneas del mito de Orfeo en la literatura postcolonial”. Universidad de California, Santa Bárbara.
2013. 1 Benjamin Franklin Scholarship to a professor and researcher of the Universidad de Alcalá.
- Francisco Manuel Saez de Adana Herrero. “El reflejo de la sociedad norteamericana y de la Guerra Civil española a través de Milton Caniff”. Universidad de Ohio.
2012. 1 Benjamin Franklin Scholarship to a professor and researcher of the Universidad de Alcalá.
- Luis Mancha. “Etnografía y literatura: representación de la cultura mexicana en la obra de Alejandro Morales”. Universidad de California, Irvine.
2011. 1 Benjamin Franklin Scholarship to a professor and researcher of the Universidad de Alcalá.
- José Ignacio Ruiz Rodríguez. “Historia Hispano Americana a través de los Fondos de la Hispanic Society of America”. Hispanic Society of America (Nueva York, Estados Unidos).
2010. 1 Benjamin Franklin Scholarship to a professor and researcher of the Universidad de Alcalá.
- Santiago Ropero Salinas. “La metilación del ADN como nueva herramienta en la búsqueda de nuevos biomarcadores en la esquizofrenia”. Hospital Mount Sinai (Nueva York, Estados Unidos).
2009. 1 Benjamin Franklin Scholarship to a professor and researcher of the Universidad de Alcalá.
- Björn Arp. “La aplicación del Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos por las instituciones financieras internacionales”. American University & Washington College of Law, de Washington D.C.
The application should be presented with:
- An invitation letter or a supporting document of the research stay acceptance from the hosting center or university
- Research memory document
- In case of applying for a scholarship type D letter with a positive resolution from the doctoral dissertation coordinator.
- Researcher CV
- Letter or certificate of the stay once done