Fellowship in Cultural Heritage

This program of research fellowships will serve to build cooperative networks among practitioners and scholars from Afghanistan, Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia, Turkey, and Yemen whose research and professional interests focus on studying or preserving cultural heritage. The program will draw on the resources, facilities, and contacts of American overseas research centers located in Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, and Yemen to enable the recipients to further their research and to build professional networks in and among the host countries.

The fellowships are intended to serve scholars who have already obtained a Ph.D. or have professional experience in the study or preservation of cultural heritage and who wish to undertake a specific research project at an overseas research center in another country. Each cycle of the three-year program will fund up to twelve one- to two-month short-term residencies with recipients affiliating with one of the following overseas research centers: American Academy in Rome; American Center of Oriental Research (Amman); American Institute for Maghrib Studies (Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria); American Institute for Yemeni Studies; American Research Center in Egypt; American Research Institute in Turkey; American School of Classical Studies at Athens; Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute; and the W.F Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (Jerusalem).