Access Fellowship
2025-2026 Application
PURPOSE
Professional conferences provide valuable opportunities for scholars to build relationships with peers, role models, and mentors. The goal of the ATA Access Fellowship is to broaden access by supporting scholars who might otherwise face funding barriers to participating in and networking with the ATA community. The Fellowship provides travel funding to the ATA Midyear Meeting with the goal of creating long-lasting relationships within the ATA among scholars engaged in the theory and practice of taxation. The Fellowship will cover hotel, conference registration, and a travel cost offset.
ELIGIBILITY
The Fellowship is open to all PhD and DBA students or early career graduates (fewer than 10 years since PhD/DBA) with interests in the theory, practice, research, and teaching of taxation.
The program can accommodate two Fellowship winners. If more than two applications are received, the recipients will be determined based on research and/or teaching interest fit with the ATA. Applications should be emailed to bstomber@iu.edu and ruizch@iu.edu by the application deadline of December 8, 2025. Applicants will be notified about their selection in early January.
Applicants must plan to attend the 2026 ATA Midyear Meeting. Click here to download the application.
DETAILS
The ATA Access Fellowship recipient will receive:
- Two nights’ accommodations at the conference hotel
- $599 to be used toward travel expenses
- Registration fee waiver
FUNDING
The ATA Access Fellowship is generously funded by the Marty Escoffier Memorial Fund.
2025-2026 ATA ENGAGEMENT, ACCESS, AND COMMUNITY COMMITTEE
Bridget Stomberg (chair), Christina Ruiz (vice chair), Kirsten Cook, Jennifer Glenn, Lynn Jones, Joanna Shaw