Emerging Scholar Awards
The program recognizes both In-Person Emerging Scholars and Online-Only Emerging Scholars, ensuring that researchers unable to travel can still hold a visible and valued role in the conference. Across all formats, Emerging Scholars participate fully in the life of the event: they chair parallel sessions, help guide and sustain discussion, and serve as bridges between established and early-career colleagues from different regions, institutions, and disciplines.
As part of CGScholar’s Event (KX) environment, Emerging Scholars contribute to a wider knowledge experience that links conference activity, community engagement, and publication. Their work is shared through Presentation Pages, digital media, and discussion spaces; they receive structured support to develop their research through the Network’s journals and book imprint; and they gain sustained visibility within the worldwide scholarly community formed around the Research Network.
The Award includes complimentary conference registration and Research Network membership, along with formal recognition during the conference proceedings. Emerging Scholars enter a supportive, scholar-led community in which they can build connections across disciplines, regions, and generations of researchers. Professional development, mentoring encounters, and opportunities for collaboration are integrated into the conference and the Network’s year-round activities.
Award recipients are expected to: attend an orientation and training session (typically the day before the conference), and participate fully throughout the conference by fulfilling assigned chairing and discussion-leading responsibilities.
The Emerging Scholar Award is open to researchers currently enrolled in a graduate studies program or identifying as early-career scholars in a field relevant to the conference. Applicants should demonstrate strong potential for scholarly contribution and a commitment to participating in the collaborative ethos of the Network.
Presiding over a dynamic gathering of international humanities scholars in University of Hawaii at Hilo, with the majestic, ever-present slopes of Maunakea Volcano as our backdrop, was fantastic experience that profoundly shaped my academic perspective as an Emerging Scholar."
As an Emerging Scholar, I was introduced to an international network of outstanding researchers and forged connections for which I will always be grateful."
The opportunity offered to me, as moderator of such a prestigious conference, will remain etched in my memory forever. Encouraging the audience to ask questions, offer criticism or give input makes the session a fruitful intellectual dialogue. And I, who was at the center of it all, benefited the most. Thanks to CG Scholar for the opportunity given as an "Emerging Scholar". I'm very grateful."
I can say that it was truly an amazing experience to moderate different sessions and also present my own research. I've met and worked with wonderful people, and it is something that I would recommend to anyone who is getting started on their career. "
My experience being an Emerging Scholar will increase my academic accumulation in understanding academic frontiers from interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives."
It has been an honor to participate in the conference as an emerging scholar which provided the opportunity to perform leadership roles in the event. In fact, this award is a worthy recognition from the world of academia which truly motivates me to aspire for higher echelons in the academic world."