The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation is pleased to offer travel awards to PhD students who want to travel to Latin America to visit archives, museums, and art collections and connect with local scholars. Exploratory Travel Awards will enable students to develop viable and innovative research projects for future application to pre-doctoral fellowships. The Exploratory Travel Award is intended to fund travel of 1-2 months in Latin America as preparation for more extensive archival and collections-based research in the future. Applicants must be enrolled in an accredited PhD program. This funding is intended only for early-career PhD students; for example, in Europe, this generally refers to students in their first year of study, and in the United States, it means pre-candidacy. Students whose institutions offer similar preliminary travel funding are not eligible for the award. Individuals in Europe and Latin America, where comparable sources of external funding are less available, are strongly encouraged to apply. A letter of recommendation from a PhD supervisor is required. Please visit the award's website for more information.