Teaching Awards
For Middle school/High school and College/University teachers. Nomination Deadline: November 15; Applications Deadline: December 20.
Teaching Awards
Grants, prizes and travel awards
Awards & Scholarships
The Classical Association of the Middle West and South offers a number of awards, grants, and scholarships. Annual deadlines are provided in parentheses.
Coming up
The next deadlines
CAMWS International Latin Translation Exam
A language award for school students. Application Deadline: October 31.
The exam
Keely Lake Travel Grant For School Groups
Application Deadline: October 7 for fall and January 30 for spring.
Travel grant
Faculty-Undergraduate Collaborative Research Grant
For a faculty member and an undergraduate working together. Application Deadline: December 6.
Research grant
Every award, by category
Awards, grants and scholarships
For more information and application instructions, follow the links below.
Diversity and Inclusion Awards
Book Prize for Authors
- Bolchazy Pedagogy Book Award (Nomination Deadline: September 1)
- CAMWS First Book Award (Nomination Deadline: September 1)
Grants and Awards for Classroom Activities
- CPLG Promotional Activity Award (Nominations/Application Deadline: January 30)
- Keely Lake Travel Grant For School Groups (Application Deadline: October 7 for fall and January 30 for spring)
Promotional Activity Grants
- Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek (CPLG) Caristia and Bridge Initiative Grants (BIG) (On-going application process)
Teacher Training and New Teacher Grants
- Teacher Training Initiative Partnership Program (Application Deadline: February 1)
- Teacher Training Initiative Scholarship (Application Deadline: February 1)
- Manson A. Stewart Teacher Training Awards (Application Deadline: January 30)
- Manson A. Stewart Travel Awards (Application Deadlines: September 3 for CAMWS-SS; January 30 for CAMWS)
- CAMWS New Teacher Awards (Application deadline: January 30)
Teaching Awards for Middle school/High school and College/University Teachers
- Teaching Awards (Nomination Deadline: November 15; Applications Deadline: December 20)
- The John Breuker Jr. Award For Exceptional Promise in Latin Teaching (January 30)
Travel Grants for Students and High School Teachers
- CAMWS Summer Travel Awards (Semple, Grant, and Benario Awards) (Application Deadline: January 30)
- CAMWS Excavation and Field School Awards (Application Deadline: January 30)
Undergraduate Student and High School Student Awards
- Anthony Fauci Award in STEM and Classics (Application Deadline: January 30)
- Faculty-Undergraduate Collaborative Research Grant (Application Deadline: December 6)
- Manson A. Stewart Undergraduate Awards (Nomination Deadline: January 6; Application Deadline: January 30)
- Institutional Members Award for Outstanding High School or Undergraduate Students (Nomination Deadline: May 1)
- James Ruebel Undergraduate Travel Award (Application Deadline: January 30)
Language Awards
- CAMWS International Latin Translation Exam (Application Deadline: October 31)
- CAMWS College Greek Exam (Application Deadlines: September 27th for Fall; February 14th for Spring)
- Phinney Book Prize (College Greek Exam)
- Intermediate College Greek Exam Prize
Presidential Awards
Service Awards
- Special Service Award (Nomination Deadline: January 30)
- Ovationes
2018 Kraft Teaching Award winner
Jessie Craft
I have never observed the same determination to ensure that each student is learning and being challenged according to their individual abilities in any other teacher.
— A student of Jessie Craft, Latin teacher, Winston-Salem NC
Read the citationHonorees
Recent CAMWS award recipients
Jeanne Marie Neumann
2018 CAMWS Award for Excellence in College Teaching. “Dr. Neumann is the one professor who has most influenced my life and the reason that I am pursuing my PhD in Classics today,” writes a former student.
Read the citation
Undergraduate research
Dr. Alden Smith and student Cynthia Liu (Baylor University) for their project, “Chrysis: A New Edition of Enea Silvio Piccolomini’s Comedy”.
Previous research projects
Eligibility
Apply as a current CAMWS member
An individual must be a current member of CAMWS in order to apply for any CAMWS awards or scholarships, including CPL awards.