The Françoise Astorg-Bollack and Tom Killian Traveling Fellowship is an annual award established in 2025. The award will enable students to pursue a research project of their own design which will engage directly with a physical building or building typology that they would not ordinarily have the opportunity to study, to research its architecture, its ongoing transformation, and its preservation.

One award will be funded for 2025 in the amount of $10,000. It is intended to make any travel destination feasible for research during the summer 2025.

• To be eligible, a student must be enrolled in GSAPP’s M.S. in Historic Preservation, and have completed 2 semesters of the MSHP program.
  
• Students may apply as a single individual or in a team of 2.
  
• Eligible students will submit a proposal to a selection committee led by the Director of the MSHP program and composed of faculty in the Historic Preservation program.
  *Interested students will submit a proposal of no more than 1,000 words outlining their purpose for the travel, the buildings or built environments they intend to visit and what their interest in these buildings might be. The buildings may be high style or vernacular – or anything in between. They may be ruins. They may be single buildings or small or large groups of buildings.
  
• The successful proposal should have a clear focus on the architecture of the built environment being examined, its transformations and preservation.
  
• Travel must be in accordance with Columbia’s Global Travel guidance and regulations.

Proposals are due March 19, 2025 and may be submitted digitally here. The selected student(s) will be notified in early April 2025.

• At the beginning of the Fall 2025 semester, the award recipient will deliver to the Historic Preservation faculty and students a brief narrative and a visual report consisting of a combination of photographs, drawings, sketches and any other pertinent visual material, including, if necessary, model(s).
  
• The award will also support the cataloging of the recipient’s report in the Columbia University Academic Commons to create an archive and demonstrate the impact of the program over time.
  
• The Director of the Historic Preservation program will review and approve the report for inclusion in the Columbia University Academic Commons. If the award recipient is unable to complete the report or if it is not approved by the Director of Historic Preservation, the work will not be archived and the recipient will not be listed on the GSAPP website.