Welcome to the Gorgias Book Grant Program

In its efforts to promote education, Gorgias Press offers annually the Gorgias Book Grant. This program offers outstanding graduate students grants in the form of Gorgias Press publications. Grants consist of books in the value of $500.00 per grant. Each year, two  grants are distributed.

2009-2010 Grant Field: Any field within the scope of Gorgias Publications
Application Deadline: January 31, 2010
Grant Date: March 2010

Eligibility

1. Candidate must be enrolled in a graduate program (Master's or Ph.D.) in an accredited university or an institution of learning in the field of the grant.
2. Candidate must have the equivalent of a GPA of 3.0 or higher.

Application Process

Send by mail the following items to: Gorgias Press LLC, Book Grants Program, 180 Centennial Ave., Suite 3 Piscataway, NJ 08854. (All documents, apart from official transcripts, must be in English. Part 1 and 2 of the application can be emailed to Christine Kiraz, Christine@gorgiaspress.com)

1. A letter indicating your interests in your field and plans for the future.
2. A two-page description of your thesis, or a one-page description of your course work in the case of course-based programs.
3. Official transcripts of the previous 2 years of university education. If the institutions you come from do not give out transcripts please contacts us to make alternative arrangements to satisfy this requirement.
4. Two letters of recommendations from professors familiar with your work (one must be your current supervisor in the field of the grant).

2008 Gorgias Book Grant Recipients: Shirly Natan Yulzary and Kyle Smith

Shirly Natan Yulzary earned her BA and MA in Biblical Studies and History of Arts Studies at the Tel-Aviv University (Israel). She also serves as an assistant and instructor in the Department of Biblical Studies. Her main fields of interest are ancient texts and languages in general, and specifically the Ugaritic literature, its literary character and its literary legacy in the bible. She is married and has two children. She paints and reads for her pleasure. At the present she is writing her dissertation, which presents a close reading on the Ugaritic Narrative texts from a literary perspective. “I am honored to be one of the recipients of the The Gorgias Book Grant. This Book Grant will aid me to specialize in my studies, and will allow me to deepen my knowledge in my main fields of interest.

Kyle Smith earned his BA (Philosophy) and MA (Early Christian Studies) at the University of Notre Dame and is presently pursuing his PhD in Early Christianity at Duke University under the direction of Professors Lucas Van Rompay and Elizabeth Clark. Using acts of East-Syrian martyrs, as well Greek, Armenian, and other Syriac sources, his dissertation will consider the construction of Christian identity in fifth-century Persia. He plans to put the Gorgias Book Grant toward acquisition of Bedjan’s Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum.