The Council of American Overseas Research Centers develops and administers programs in collaboration with our member Centers and affiliated partners.

• The Council of American Overseas Research Centers Multi-Country Research Fellowship Program for Advanced Multi-Country Research - The program is open to U.S. doctoral candidates and scholars who have already earned their Ph.D. in fields in the humanities, social sciences, or allied natural sciences and wish to conduct research of regional or trans-regional significance. more information
• Andrew W. Mellon East-Central European Research Fellows - The program of fellowships enables Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian and Slovak scholars in the humanities and allied social sciences to carry out research at institutes of advanced study in other countries. more information
• Critical Language Scholarships for Intensive Summer Language Institutes - The United States Department of State and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) are pleased to announce the availability of scholarships for intensive overseas study in the critical need foreign languages of Arabic, Bangla/Bengali, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Turkish, and Urdu for Summer 2008. more information.
• Intensive Summer Language Institutes for Chinese, Arabic and Russian Teachers - The Department of State is pleased to announce Intensive Summer Language Institutes (ISLI) in Chinese, Arabic and Russian for 2008, part of the National Security Language Initiative. The goal of the program is to strengthen foreign language instruction in critical languages at U.S. schools by providing teachers with the opportunity to study intermediate- and advanced-level Chinese, Arabic, and Russian overseas. The summer 2008 program is open to current K-12 teachers as well as community college instructors of Chinese (Mandarin), Arabic and Russian. It is also open to students enrolled in education programs intending to teach these languages. More information.
• Fulbright-Hays 102(b)6 Report: Recipients of U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award - In 1998, the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) conducted a survey of recipients of U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays 102(b)6 Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad fellowships under a Title VI International Research and Studies grant. View results of the survey here. Please note: in order to read this file you will need to have a copy of Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer.

For additional programs administered by American Overseas Research Centers, please see their websites, which can be accessed through the Centers page