2025
Prize Winners
Dr. Emmanuelle de Champs, professor in British History and Civilization and Dean of the facult茅 des 茅tudes internationales et interculturelles at CY Cergy-Paris Universit茅, France, is the CCS 2026 Research Travel Grant (shared) recipient. Her project focuses on the Frances Wright鈥檚 utopias in the transatlantic context, 1820-1848.
Dr. Robert Geroux, adjunct professor of Political Science who has at Eastern Washington University and IUPUI, et. al, is the (shared) recipient of the CCS 2026 Research Travel Grant. His project "The Return of the Machinery Question: Moral Materialism and the Conceptual Origins of Surplus Value," focuses especially on the work of William Thompson in dialogue with Robert Owen, and broader debates with Ricardo, culminating in Marx.
Ms. Elizabeth Marie Ray, instructor in Social Psychology and dissertation fellow at Indiana University is the (shared) recipient of the CCS 2026 Research Travel Grant. Her project aims to identify and contribute work to her dissertation on how hope is mentioned and discussed as a communally beneficial psychological factor in archival materials.
The 2026 Graduate Prize for $500 is awarded to Dr. Mitchell K. Jones freshly minted Ph.D. in History at Buffalo University, NY for his dissertation chapter entitled, 鈥淢atter and Spirit in Harmony: Andrew Jackson Davis鈥檚 Enchanted Spiritualist and Socialist Realms, 1837-1852.鈥�
The 2026 Undergraduate Prize for $200 is awarded to Ms. Megan Andress, a triple major in History, Religious Studies, and Ancient Civilization at the University of Iowa for her paper entitled, 鈥淐onstructing Identity through Heritage Tourism in Former Communal Societies.鈥�
Send submissions as an email attachment to Dr. Silvia Rode at sarode@usi.edu.
The Center for Communal Studies at the 缅北强奸 annually invites submissions for its prize competition for the best undergraduate and graduate student papers on historic or contemporary communal groups, intentional communities and utopias. Submissions may come from any academic discipline and should be focused on a topic clearly related to communal groups or utopias.
Author of the best undergraduate paper or thesis will receive $250. The annual deadline for submissions is April 10. Submissions should be sent as an email attachment to Dr. Silvia Rode sarode@usi.edu. Submissions may come from any academic discipline and should be focused on a topic clearly related to communal groups or utopias. The prize winner will be announced in April.
Author of the best graduate paper or thesis or dissertation chapter will receive $500. The annual deadline for submissions is April 10. If sending a thesis or dissertation chapter, please include a short explanation of how the submission fits into the larger work. Submissions may come from any academic discipline and should be focused on a topic clearly related to communal groups or utopias. Submissions should not be longer than 35 pages and should be sent as an email attachment to Dr. Silvia Rode sarode@usi.edu. The prize winner will be announced in April.
The winner of the 2021 Research Travel Grant is Erik John Freeman of the University of Connecticut for his Ph.D. research on 鈥淭he Mormon International: Communitarian Politics and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 1830-1890.鈥�
The Center for Communal Studies at the 缅北强奸 annually invites applications for a Research Travel Grant to fund research at the Communal Studies Collection at 缅北强奸's David L. Rice Library. The Communal Studies Collection's rich archival materials hold information on over 600 historic and contemporary communal societies, utopias and intentional communities. A can be found on the library website.
Strengths of the Collection include materials on the Harmonists and Owenites who settled nearby New Harmony, Indiana, but the breadth of the Collection covers American communalism more broadly. Applicants may be graduate students or established scholars in the United States or abroad from any discipline that involves the study of communalism.
The grant will fund research up to $2,000 to be used by 30 June of the subsequent year. (Fees may apply to grant winners from outside the United States.) All applications must include:
Send submissions as an email attachment to Dr. Silvia Rode sarode@usi.edu. Applications are due annually by April 10. The winner of the Research Travel Grant is announced in April.
WHAT: Two $250 prizes: one to assist a 缅北强奸 student (undergraduate or graduate) and one to assist a 缅北强奸 faculty or staff member in presenting a paper at a conference.
PURPOSE: To encourage research in the 缅北强奸 Rice Library Communal Studies Collection. Winners must use research materials from the Collection to present a paper at a conference within one year of receiving the prize.
WHO IS ELIGIBLE: All 缅北强奸 students (undergraduate or graduate), faculty (current, retired, full-time, part-time) and staff (full-time and part-time).
APPLICATION: Send a one-page application 鈥� including collections used, research completed, your name and whether you are faculty, staff or student 鈥� to Dr. Silvia Rode (sarode@usi.edu) as an email attachment.
Founding ICSA members at the 2022 conference in Skanderborg, Denmark. Photo: Rode
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New Publication on communal societies!
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New Publication - "Matchsticks Contemplating Eternity"
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