CHNY proudly supports active researchers in the field of culinary history through its annual Scholars’ Grants.
Let’s be frank: original research is expensive, and most universities in our current climate favor STEM projects. Within the small (but growing) number of schools with formal Food Studies programs, food culture, and its cousin, culinary history, remain academic stepchildren, hard-pressed to obtain financial support for essential research. The situation is even more dire for independent scholars and others who lack minimal institutional support.
Starting in 2005, CHNY has annually given merit-based awards to researchers, regardless of academic affiliation, seeking support for their endeavors. What started modestly as a single $1,000 stipend was magnified in impact in 2012, when The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts recognized the importance of the CHNY Scholars Grant program with generous financial support, enabling CHNY to award two grants, for $3,500 and $1,500. That support opened a floodgate to applications, and The Foundation generously responded by increasing its support in 2017 to $7,500, allowing three grants: $3,500, $2,500, and $1,500. We are deeply honored that The Foundation continues to support our Scholars’ Grants program and will enable us to award three grants in 2021.
Applications for the 2021 Scholars’ Grants will open on March 15; completed applications are due no later than June 15, 2021.
Applications are judged blindly by a committee and consist of two parts:
Questions? Contact us at:
scholars@culinaryhistoriansny.org
The CHNY Scholars’ Grants support current, ongoing research projects that will culminate in a book, article, paper, film, or other scholarly endeavor, including ephemera, performance, and online.
Scholars’ Grants do not cover expenses in connection with publication of completed research, such as illustration permissions, etc.
Applicants for the CHNY Scholars’ Grants must indicate how the Scholars’ Grants will further their projects, such as through defraying research and travel expenses, targeted conference attendance, or other activities related to the applicant’s project.
Scholars’ Grant recipients will present their findings to Culinary Historians of New York, either in a live program (Zoom or in-person), as an article to be included in NYFoodStory: The Journal of the Culinary Historians of New York, or in another appropriate forum.
Scholars' Grant: $3,500
"Heavenly Food and Earthly Fires: Cooking and Spirituality in Colonial Latin America"
Scholars' Grant: $2,500
"Ancient Bread: An Experimental Approach"
Scholars' Grant: $1,500
"Treasure of Appetite: Food in 15th Century Iran as told by Boshaq At’ame"
Scholars' Grant: $3,500
"Feeding the Revolution: Female Black Panther Party Leaders In New York City and the Power of a Hot Breakfast to Inspire Political Change"
Scholars' Grant: $2,500
"Troubling Paradise: Tiki Bars and American Imperial Imaginaries"
Scholars' Grant: $1,500
"Japanese Cuisine and a Mouse’s Tale"
Scholars' Grant: $3,500
"Culinary Culture of the Spanish Roma"
Scholars' Grant: $2,500
"’Old Polish’ Cuisine"
Scholars' Grant: $1,500
"Butlers and Common Room Men: Wine, Class, and Conviviality in 19th Century Oxford Colleges"
Scholars' Grant: $3,500
"Colatura di Alici: How One Town on the Amalfi Coast Preserved Ancient Roman Fish Sauce"
Scholars' Grant: $2,500
"Flight Fuel: Pan Am and the Creation of Inflight Cuisines, 1930-1980"
Scholars' Grant: $1,500
"When Kosher Isn’t Kosher: 100 Years of Murder, Crime, and Fraud"
Scholars' Grant: $3,500
"Recipes for Resistance: Culinary Writings from American Feminists, 1875-2005"
Scholars' Grant: $1,500
"From Kongri to Diri ak Djondjon: Slavery, Creolization, and Culinary Genesis in Saint Domingue and Independent Haiti"
Scholars' Grant: $3,500
"Every up-to-date cheesemaker knows: How starter cultures changed cheese, 1880-1930"
Scholars' Grant: $1,500
"Making Politics Palatable: Food and Partisanship in the Early American Republic."
Scholars' Grant: $3,500
"Honest Poverty versus Foreign Fakery: Popular Histories of Haggis and Culinary Historical Corrective"
Scholars' Grant: $1,500
"Feeding the Gods: Afro-Brazilian Street Foods and dendé"
Scholars' Grant: $3,500
"Eating High on the Hog: African-Americans, Food Reform, and Racial Uplift."
Scholars' Grant: $1,500
"Around the Mediterranean: Foodways and Identity."
Scholars' Grant: $3,500
"In Da Club: Dining and Taste-making in 18th Century London"
Scholars' Grant: $1,500
"Down By the Creek: Cooking with Rebecca Taylor in Early Eastchester’s Guion Tavern"
Scholars' Grant: $1,000
"Research on the carved mahogany cake boards used to raise designs on New Year’s Cakes in early nineteenth century New York."
Scholars' Grant: $1,000
"The Cooking of History: Early Travelogues as Gastronomic Adventure."
Scholars' Grant: $1,000
"The Transmission of Knowledge in Cantonese Cooking Schools."
Scholars' Grant: $1,000
"Cooking the Books: Nationalism, Regionalism, and American Cookbooks, 1865-1917."
Scholars' Grant: $1,000
"Tuskegee Experiment Station / Papers of George Washington Carver"
Scholars' Grant: $1,000
"America Eats Project"
Contributions to the CHNY Scholar’s Grant Fund
Culinary Historians of New York would like to increase the amount or number of grants given in the future and contributions to the scholarship fund are encouraged. Further information is available by writing to us at ScholarsGrant@culinaryhistoriansny.org.
Culinary Historians of New York is a tax-exempt organization under § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Please consult your tax advisor for advice on the tax deductibility of contributions.
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