The Local Academic Committee of the XIIIth Congress met in Buenos Aires on 3 April to consider the numerous applications for grants. After a careful study the Committee has decided to give 33 partial grants to the scholars listed below:

Bibikov, Michael (Russia)
Bozhong, Li (China)
Bulut, Mehmet (Turkey)
Chaudhury, Sushil (India)
Das, Kumar (India)
Dávila, Carlos (Colombia)
El Kadiri Boutchich, Brahim (Marruecos)
Frega, Ana (Uruguay)
Herrera, Inés (México)
Kostov, Alexandre (Bulgaria)
Lobanova, Elena (Russia)
Mateu, Ana María (Argentina)
Parra, Alma (Mexico)
Perron, Régine (France)
Prakash, Om (India)
Román Cervantes, Cándido (Spain)
Roy, Tirthankar (India)
Tsotelia, Medea (Georgia)
Wang, Yuru (China)
Yildrim, Onur (Turkey)

In addition, partial grants for travel and accommodation have been given to 13 PhD scholars who will present their doctoral research and compete for the IEHA Award:

D 1. Antiquity and Middle Ages
Yadira Gonzalez de Lara (European University Institute, Italy)

D 2. Early Modern
Joerg Baten (University of Munich, Germany)
Liam Brunt (Oxford University, UK)
Oscar Gelderblom (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Michael Limberger (Universiteit Antwerpen-UFSIA, Belgium)

D 3. Modern, before World War I
Muriel Neven (University of Liege, Belgium)
Monika Pohle Fraser (European University Institute, Italy)
Juan R. Rosés Vendoiro (Universidad Carlos III, Spain)
Simone Wegge (Northwestern University, USA)

D 4. Modern, after World War I
Chiaki Moriguchi (Stanford University, USA)
Thomas Pettersson (Umeå University, Sweden)
Chibuike Uche (London School of Economics, UK)
Jeroen Touwen (Leiden University, The Netherlands)

The total amount of the grants awarded reaches $ 51,265.
Before 1 June the Committee will meet again in order to consider the possibility of extending grants to another group of applicants.