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Gorgias Book Grant
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. 2025 Grant Field: Any field within the scope of Gorgias Publications Eligibility
Application Process To apply, please email or post the following to Gemma Tully (gemma@gorgiaspress.com)
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, 2025 (snail-mail documents should be postmarked by the due date). Winners will be announced in early 2025. Meet our 2024 Winners! Amin Royatvand Ghiasvand Amin was born in Tehran (Iran), where he did his schooling until Year 11 (age 16) when he became a refugee in the UK with very limited English. After a year or two of learning the language, he started his A-levels and discovered a passion for theology – almost all its aspects. He went on to study for his undergraduate degree at Cambridge, taking a mixture of papers, such as language studies (Classical Arabic, NT Greek and Persian poetry), biblical studies, church history, Christian theology, and Islamic mysticism and philosophy. At this point, Amin felt there was a scholarly vacuum regarding how all these subjects could come together, so turned towards Syriac Studies. He is currently studying at Oxford under Professor David Taylor (Amin has been told he is the only Syriac Studies Masters student in the whole of the UK). He believes Syriac nicely connects the Late Antique world with the Medieval period and is fascinated with the role Syriac Christians played in the translation movement. Amin hopes to continue his research at PhD level to understand the intersections of theologies, philosophies, and mysticisms from the Late Antique world to the Medieval times. Cody Glen Barnhart Cody is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Aberdeen. His thesis “Clement of Alexandria and the Transmission of Polymathy in Alexandrian and Desert Contexts” studies the phenomenon of polymathy in classical, Alexandrian, and Origenian and monastic literary traditions. Specifically, it aims to situate Clement of Alexandria as a central figure in Christianizing the polymathic “mode” of collating and disseminating knowledge—a pedagogical commitment downstream of Clement’s Second Sophistic literary context and undergirding the Stromateis. After completing his thesis, he hopes to continue investigating ancient Alexandria as an epicenter of early Christian scholarship and contribute to the ongoing reevaluation of ancient philosophy’s relationship to Christian theology in antiquity. Previous Winners of the Gorgias Book Grant include: 2023 Clark R. Bates and Nicolas Atas 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
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