Welcome to the Gorgias Book Grant Program

The Gorgias Book Grant was first awarded in 2002. It is an important part of our ongoing efforts to support young scholars in the humanities. Every year, Gorgias chooses two graduate students to receive an award of $500 worth of Gorgias titles (each) for demonstrating excellence in their fields.

2024 Grant Field: Any field within the scope of Gorgias Publications
Application Deadline: December 31, 2024

Eligibility

1. The 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. The candidate must be a student in good standing.

Application Process

To apply, please email or post the following to Gemma Tully (gemma@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 (or if these documents are difficult to acquire), please contact us to make alternative arrangements.
4. Two letters of recommendation from professors familiar with your work (one must be your current supervisor in the field of the grant).

If applying by mail, please send the above items to Gemma Tully, Gorgias Press LLC, Book Grants Program, 954 River Rd., Piscataway, NJ 08854.

Please bear in mind that all documents, except for official transcripts, should be in English.

In order to be considered for the grant, please submit all documents by December 31, 2024 (snail-mail documents should be postmarked by the due date). Winners will be announced in early 2025.

Meet our 2023 Winners!

Clark R. Bates is currently a professor of New Testament at Forge Theological Seminary (Online) and a PhD researcher with the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing (ITSEE) at the University of Birmingham in the UK. His doctoral dissertation is titled The Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Ephesians: Text, Translation, and Commentary. It is the first critical edition with English translation and commentary ever compiled for a New Testament catena commentary. He is also teaching associate with the University, lecturing on research methods, Christian Ethics, Religion in the Public Sphere, and Atheisms. He is a recipient of the Midland 4 Cities Doctoral Training Scholarship and was the first Fellow of the Text and Canon Institute at Phoenix Seminary in Phoenix, Arizona. After his PhD studies are completed, Clark will be joining the Istituto di formazione evengelica e documentazione in Padua, Italy as an instructor of New Testament.

Nicolas Atas was born in Brussels (Belgium) into an Aramaic-speaking family of the Syrian Orthodox tradition with roots in south-eastern Turkey (Ṭur ʿAbdin). Alongside the modern Aramaic spoken at home (Turoyo dialect), he learned Syriac as a child as part of the liturgy. Out of passion, Nicolas pursued and earned two master's degrees, the first in ancient oriental languages and literature from UCLouvain in 2018 and the second in Semitic languages from FU Berlin in 2022. Currently, he is engrossed in his doctoral studies at KU Leuven, under the supervision of Prof. Philip Michael Forness. His research topic is: “A Christian Appeal for the Survival of Syriac in an Arabic Literary Context: The "Book of the Interpreter" (Kitāb al-Tarjumān) of Elias of Nisibis (d. 1046)”. His research focuses mainly on Syriac, Christian Arabic, and modern Aramaic.

Previous Winners of the Gorgias Book Grant include:

2022 Isabella Maurizio, Piotr Jutkiewicz, and Tyler Moser (exceptionally, 3 awards were granted)

2021 Julia Schwarzer and Aron Tillema

2020 Kyle Longworth and Peter Tarras

2019 Mara Nicosia and Saquib Hussain

2018 Sophia Pitcher and David Vasquez

(We are working to complete the award history and hope to have the full list in place soon!)

2002 Kevin van Bladel