Hagen Family Foundation Travel Award

This honor awards up to $1,500 granted to a doctoral student or faculty member who attends and presents a paper at the ARIA Annual Meeting. The objective of the award is “to extend the opportunity to attend the ARIA Annual Meeting to those who would not otherwise attend, yet would benefit from the interaction with their peers.”

The Hagen Family Foundation (THFF) is a private family foundation established in 1999 that provides financial grants to not-for-profit organizations. THFF favors creative and innovative proposals in the areas of the arts, education, environment, religion, and social services.

2025 Winner: Sophia Bock (University of Hamburg Business School​)

Past Winners:

  • 2024 - Prerna Mishra, Georgia State University
  • 2023 - Hamza Essaidi, University of Hawaii
  • 2022 - Vaibhav Anand, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • 2021 - None due to virtual meeting
  • 2020 - Juan Zhang, Eastern Kentucky University
  • 2019 - Chenyuan Liu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • 2018 - Sangyong Han, East Stroudsburg University
  • 2017 - Sebastian Schluetter, Mainz University of Applied Sciences
  • 2016 - Evan Eastman, University of Georgia
  • 2015 - Chia-Chun Chiang, University of South Carolina
  • 2014 - Sebastian Soika, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  • 2013 - Willie Dion Reddic, Syracuse University
  • 2012 - Tzuting Lin, National Taiwan University
  • 2011 - Yunjie (Winnie) Sun, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • 2010 - Sojung Park, California State University, Fullerton
  • 2009 - Jing Ai, University of Hawaii at Manoa