Established in 2025, the Student Volunteer Attendance Stipend was made possible by a generous gift from Dr. Claire Robertson through the establishment of the Robertson Fund. The stipend will engage up to two local student volunteers who will support the ASA Women’s Caucus Marketplace during the ASA Annual Meeting.
The stipend includes student ASA and Women’s Caucus membership, Annual Meeting registration fees, a Women’s Caucus luncheon ticket or similar, and a local transportation stipend.
Eligibility
Nominees must reside in the immediate area of the Annual Meeting and may not be listed on the Annual Meeting program to be eligible. Students must be available to volunteer for the length of the Annual Meeting to be considered.
Nomination
Scholars local to the Annual Meeting city may nominate current students to receive the stipend. Nominations must be submitted via the online form here. Nominations open January and close March 15 annually.
About Claire Robertson
Dr. Claire C. Robertson is Professor Emerita of History and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University, where she taught from 1984 to 2012. She received her MA from the University of Chicago in early modern European history and her Ph.D. in 1974 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in African history. She has published over sixty articles and six books on women and slavery, African women and trade, education, socioeconomic structure, genital cutting, racism in the military, life histories, with particular reference to Ghana and Kenya, and Atlantic World histories, among others. She received the African Studies Association Best Book Award (formerly the Herskovits Book Prize) for Sharing the Same Bowl: A Socioeconomic History of Women and Class in Accra, Ghana (Indiana University Press, 1984), and the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association’s Peggy Koppelman Book Award for Transnational Sisterhood and Genital Cutting: Disputing U.S. Polemics (University of Illinois Press, 2005), co-edited with Stanlie James. Dr. Robertson is a founding member of the ASA Women’s Caucus and former co-convener.
About the Robertson Fund
The Robertson Fund, established through a generous gift by Dr. Claire Robertson in 2025, supports three ASA opportunities: The Robertson Engagement Grant, ASA Dependent Care Grants, and Student Volunteer Attendance Stipends.