Dear Students,

The American Studies Center is pleased to announce a competition for student research grants.

The grants will support students’ work on their MA theses and BA papers written in conjunction with their BA seminars. As the research must be related to a BA paper or an MA thesis, 3rd-year BA students and MA students of all years will have priority.

Funding

  • The maximum amount of a single grant is 4000 PLN.

  • The maximum number of grants available is three.

  • If applications are budgeted at less than 4000 PLN, it may be possible to award more than three grants (last year four grants were awarded).

The funding may be used for:

  • travel to libraries and specialized collections,

  • purchase of books,

  • fees for access to online databases,

  • other resources necessary to complete the research project.

Grants will be awarded to the authors of the best MA and BA research proposals.

Application Process

Research proposals should be submitted by email to the Head of the Committee:
Prof. William Glass – w.glass@uw.edu.pl


Deadline: January 12, 2026

The final decision will be made by the committee members – Prof. William Glass, Prof. Agnieszka Graff, Prof. Bohdan Szklarski, and Dr. Jan Smoleński – by January 29, 2026.

More detailed instructions down below.

Year 2025/2026

Jan 26: “Laboring in America: Polish-American Women and Labor Migration (1890s-1930s)”

January 21, 2026

The European Forum on US History, in cooperation with the ASC and as a part of the celebration of the ASC’s 50th Anniversary, is hosting an online lecture “Laboring in America: Polish-American Women and Labor Migration (1890s-1930s)” by Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska. 

Year 2025/2026

Jan 22: “‘Do I look famished?’: Weird Orality and Convivial Dying in Ishirō Honda’s Matango (1963).”

January 15, 2026

We’re cordially inviting you to the last open event in the “Wiedze u-korzenione” series in the fall semester 2025/26, co-organized by the Weird Fictions Research Group and Centrum Humanistyki Środowiskowej UW.

Year 2025/2026

16 Jan: “U.S Democracy in Crisis: ethnonational authoritarianism, liberal democracy, a Balkanized federation, and the threat to the Transatlantic alliance”

January 13, 2026

Leadership Research Group & Koło Naukowe Amerykanistów have a pleasure of inviting you to a meeting with a renown American journalist and writer Mr. Colin Woodard.

American Studies Colloquium Series

January 22: “Yearning for Crip Horizons: Crip Theory for Postsocialist Spaces”

January 9, 2026

We are pleased to invite you to the last lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2025/2026 Winter semester! This time we are pleased to host Kateřina Kolářová with a lecture “Yearning for Crip Horizons: Crip Theory for Postsocialist Spaces”.

News

Student research grant 2025/26

December 11, 2025

The American Studies Center is pleased to announce a competition for student research grants. The grants will support students’ work on their MA theses and BA papers written in conjunction with their BA seminars. As the research must be related to a BA paper or an MA thesis, 3rd-year BA students and MA students of all years will have priority.