Affiliate Small Grants
Mershon Center for International Security Studies
Affiliate Small Grants
For a general understanding of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies' mission, funding goals, and categories of funding, please review the overview of Mershon funding on our website. Small grants are only available to current Mershon Center faculty and student affiliates. Students must be actively pursing a degree at The Ohio State University to be eligible.
Affiliate small grant proposals should be no more than one page and should be sent via email attachment to Kyle McCray, Business & Operations Manager at the Mershon Center, at mccray.44@osu.edu; he is also happy to answer questions via email or at 614-292-3810. Proposals will be reviewed by Mershon leadership on a rolling basis; the staff appreciate reasonable lead time.
Affiliate-Only Small Grants
Current individual Mershon affiliates who are not currently funded through Mershon may apply for up to $2,000 (faculty) or $1,000 (graduate students) to support travel and other research-related, Mershon-relevant expenditures, once their departmental and contractual funding is exhausted. If you are not a current affiliate of the Center, you may apply for the spring semester graduate grants.
Affiliate Small Grant Request Form
Affiliate-Requested Research Conversations
Mershon invites its affiliates to make use of 1039 Derby for small meetings relevant to Mershon's mission. We especially encourage work-in-progress and brainstorming conversations, and in some cases can provide refreshments and modest tech support. Ideally such requests will come from more than one affiliate and will enact Mershon's multi-perspectival approach. Non- and not-yet affiliates are of course very welcome as part of the mix.