The members of the Council of American Overseas
Research Centers have centers in Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh,
Bulgaria, Cambodia, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, India, Iran, Israel,
Italy, Iraq, Jordan, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Pakistan,
Sri
Lanka, Tunisia, Turkey, West Africa, West Bank/Gaza Strip and
Yemen. They serve as a base for virtually every American scholar
undertaking research in the host countries.
Services
American Overseas Research Centers
offer many services to scholars including:
- providing research libraries, technical services, and living
accommodations;
- serving as a base for field expeditions;
- supporting publication of papers, books and serials, newsletters
and information bulletins;
- sponsoring joint scholarly projects and offering a program
of conferences, lectures, seminars, concerts and exhibitions;
- providing a place for contact and exchange between American
researchers and their host-country counterparts as well as
third-country colleagues working in the host-country;
- liaison with host country governments and universities
in obtaining access to research sources; and
- monitoring and offering advice on the research climate
in the host-country.
In addition to support for scholars, most centers
make available their research to interested members of the
U.S. and host-country publics, including primary and secondary
schools. Most centers are consortia of U.S. universities
and are governed by representatives of their member institutions.
All centers are independently incorporated in the United
States as private, not-for-profit organizations.
CAORC Member Centers
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