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Fellowship Details
Eligibility Guidelines
Eligibility requirements apply at the time of application. Applicants
must meet all of the following requirements and will be considered
without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin
and/or physical impairment.
- Must be a U.S. citizen. Proof of citizenship (photocopy
of passport) must be shown upon award notification.
- Must have a Ph.D. or be a U.S. doctoral candidate who has completed
all Ph.D. requirements with the exception of the dissertation.
- Must be engaged in the study of and research in the humanities,
social sciences, and allied natural sciences.
- Must wish to conduct research of regional or trans-regional significance
in two or more countries outside the United States, one of which
must host participating
American overseas research center (ORC).
Application Deadline
The deadline for application submission is Friday, January,
15, 2010.
Letters of recommendation and graduate transcripts must be post-marked
by Friday, January 15, 2010 and received by Friday, January 22,
2010.
Fellowships Terms and
Conditions
- Fellowships are limited to the support of study and research
in the humanities, social sciences, and allied natural sciences.
- Fellowships may be awarded to U.S. doctoral candidates who have
completed all Ph.D. requirements with the exception of the dissertation
and to scholars who have already received a Ph.D.
- Fellowships will be awarded to U.S. citizens only.
Proof of citizenship (photocopy of passport) must be
shown upon award notification.
- Applicants must propose and conduct field research in at least
two countries outside the United States, one of which must host
an American overseas research center (ORC). Click for complete
list of participating centers.
- Fellowship tenure must be of at least 90 days duration. The 90
day tenure need not be continuous.
- Fellows must complete their fellowships (including submitting
a final report) by October
31, 2011. Any unused portion of the stipend must
be returned to CAORC by this date.
- This program provides stipends of up to $10,000 per fellow. Air
travel procured with funds from this grant must adhere to the Fly
America policy. No dependent allowance
is available.
- Given changing travel restrictions and/or travel warnings to
many countries, fellows should contact CAORC prior to purchasing
airfare.
- While CAORC encourages scholars to apply to other federal and
private sources in addition to the CAORC Multi-Country Research
Fellowship Program, CAORC fellows may not simultaneously hold other
major federally funded fellowships. CAORC fellows who receive additional
awards must contact CAORC immediately to discuss possible date
and stipend adjustments.
- CAORC fellows will be granted all privileges normally accorded
other fellows at the ORC with which they will affiliate.
- CAORC is unable to provide health or other insurance to its fellows.
Fellows are required to supply CAORC with proof of health insurance
as well as emergency evacuation and repatriation of remains insurance
before leaving the United States.
- Fellowships are authorized only after the ORC with which the
fellow intends to affiliate has given approval and a security clearance
has been granted.
- Fellowship recipients are eligible to reapply for a second MCRFP
three years after their most recent award.
- CAORC does not advise fellows on tax questions concerning their
stipend.
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Preparing to Apply
Tips for Applying
- Meet the eligibility guidelines and the application
deadline.
- Read the website of the proposed affiliate ORCs to ensure
that the proposed research topic fits within their broad purview.
Links to all ORC websites can be found on the Centers
Page.
- Read and follow the instructions.
- Include only the information and materials requested and observe
any limitations on length.
- Submit application via email as attachments using an
MS Word or PDF format.
Tips for Letters of Recommendations
- The applicant is responsible for notifying referees of their
request for letters and for ensuring those letters are submitted
to CAORC by the deadline.
- All references must be in English.
- Ph.D. candidates must submit one letter from their academic
advisor with the Academic Advisor Form.
- Do not submit more references than the 3 required.
Important Notes Regarding Applications
- Funding is not available for research conducted in the United
States.
- CAORC’s preferred method of submission is via email. Once
an application is submitted it cannot be resubmitted or edited.
- Letters of recommendation must be mailed by the application
deadline and received no more than a week later.
- Ph.D candidates who plan to use the fellowship for post-doctoral
research should check the post-doctoral classification.
- If you are a US citizen studying abroad please send MA
transcripts and a letter from the registrar stating
that you
are registered in the PhD program.
- Notification of fellowship status will be made available
to each applicant via email by April 15, 2010. Fellows
are advised
that it
can take up to six months to obtain the necessary research
clearance. Air travel must meet Fly American policy
guidelines.
- Applicants applying to travel to Maghrib countries
only should apply to the American Institute of Maghrib
Studies
(AIMS)
for funding.
- For the purposes of the Multi-Country Research Fellowship
Program, the West African Research Association
(WARA) can only be considered
towards fulfilling the requirement to affiliate
with at least one American overseas research center when
Senegal is included
in the
research proposal.
- Applicants applying to travel to Greece and affiliate
with the American School of Classical Studies
at Athens (ASCSA)
must submit an ASCSA
Associate Member application and a copy of their
CAORC application online on the ASCSA web site,
www.ascsa.edu.gr
- Applicants applying to travel to Egypt should
plan to commence their research in Egypt no
earlier than October
1, 2010
to ensure adequate
time for research clearance.
- Proof of Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval
must be provided, if relevant, upon receipt
of fellowship.
Samples of Past Awards
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1993: Shahnaz Rouse, Sarah Lawrence College (Egypt/Pakistan/India)
Shifting Fragments, Uncovering Nations
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1994: Joy McCorriston & Sheila McNally, University
of Minnesota (Oman/Yemen)
Incense Production in Ancient Southern Arabia:
Developing an Archaeological Project
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1995: Marvin Weinbaum, University of Illinois
(Pakistan/Egypt)
Markets and Democracy in the Muslim Polity
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1996: Clarissa Burt, Ohio University (Egypt/Jordan/Morocco)
Egyptian Poetry and its Criticism Since 1967
in the Arabo-Poetic Context
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1998: Susan Miller, Harvard University (Tunisia/Egypt/Turkey)
The Jewish Quarter of the Mediterranean City:
An Architectural and Historical Study
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1999: Priya Satia, UC-Berkeley (India/Pakistan/Kuwait/Bahrain/England)
Indian Ocean Smugglers and the British Raj, 1920-1945
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2000: Ned Bertz, University of Iowa (India/Tanzania)
Everyday Encounters in India and Tanzania:
Nationalism, Race, and Diaspora in the Indian
Ocean Region
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2001: Carrie Konold, University of Michigan (Senegal/Morocco/Ghana)
Social Networks of Political Communication in
Africa
- 2002: Janet Jones, Bucknell University (Turkey/Greece)
Technology, Trade, and Influence in First Millennium BCE
Asia Minor: Ancient Glass from Gordion
- 2003: Karen Ruffle, UNC-Chapel Hill (India/Iran/Syria)
Memory Inflamed: Women’s Participation in the Shi’i
Community of Remembrance
- 2004: Christopher Vasantkumar, UC Berkeley (India, China)
The Routes of Belonging: Tibetan Migrants and
the Limits of the Chinese Nation
- 2005: James Meyer, Brown University (Turkey, Ukraine)
Turkic Worlds: Culture Wars, Community
Representation, and Collective Identity in the Russian
and Ottoman Empires, 1880-1917
- 2006: Tiffiny Tung & Brian Kemp, Vanderbilt University (Mexico,
Peru)
Investigating the Effects of Ancient Imperialism
on Population Migration in Ancient Mexico and Peru
through Bioarchaeological and Genetic Analyses
- 2007: Michelle Machicek, University of Sheffield (China, Mongolia,
Kyrgyzstan)
A Biocultural Analysis of Later Prehistoric Populations
of Inner Asia
- 2008: York Norman, Buffalo State College (Bosnia, Turkey)
Constructing the nation: a comparison of late nineteenth- and early
twentieth-century Ottoman and Bosnian Muslim political thought
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Apply
Deadline for application submission is Friday, January,
15, 2010.
Letters of recommendation and graduate transcripts must be post-marked
by Friday, January 15, 2010 and received by Friday, January 22,
2010
A complete application consists of:
- Application Form
- Project Description - On a separate sheet of paper, in 1500 words or less, please
describe the nature of your proposal and your competence to carry
out the required research. State the reasons your project
requires
your
presence in the countries you indicated, what relationship
you will have with the host-country ORC, and the methodology
you propose
to use in conducting your research. Indicate the facilities
(i.e. libraries, museums and archives) you plan to use while
conducting
your research. Finally, please indicate the extent to
which you investigated the availability of other funding sources.
Please
note that readers may not be specialists in your field.
- Project Bibliography/Literature Review -
1 page maximum, additional pages will not be submitted
to the readers for review.
- Three (3) separate letters
of recommendation- Ph.D candidates
must have one letter from academic advisor with a signed Academic
Advisor Form.
- Curriculum Vitae - 3 pages maximum, additional pages will not be
submitted to the readers for review.
- Graduate Transcripts - Ph.D candidates only
Please read the Application
Instructions before submitting your
application.
Download the full application packet (instructions, application
form, and academic advisor form) here.
Application
Submission
Preferred Method of Submittal:
Please submit the application form,
project description, project bibliography/literature review, and
curriculum vitae via email to fellowships@caorc.org. Documents
in MS Word format are preferred. You will receive an email confirmation
of receipt within five (5) business days.
Please have your letters of recommendation and transcripts (if
applicable) mailed directly to CAORC via the U.S. Postal Service
or Express Mail
(FedEx, UPS, DHL, etc.):
U.S. Postal Service:
CAORC
Multi-Country Research Fellowship Program
P.O. Box 37012
MRC-178
Washington, DC 20013-7012
Express Mail:
CAORC-Multi Fellowship
c/o Natural History Museum
10th Street & Constitution Avenue, NW
MRC-178
Washington, DC 20560-0178
In lieu of email, you may send all application materials to one of
the addresses above. Please note that the application form, project
description, bibliography/literature review, and curriculum
vitae must arrive at CAORC by January 15, 2010, even if sent via
postal mail.
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Selection Process
Review Criteria
Fellows will be selected by the CAORC grants panel made up of scholars
accustomed to conducting regional and trans-regional research. Please
note that readers may not be specialists in your field. Applicants
will be judged according to the following criteria:
- Merits of the proposal for significance, relevance, and potential
contribution to regional and/or trans-regional scholarly research.
- Applicant qualifications.
- Research design and methodology.
- Significance to the applicant's field.
- Significance to needs and interests of host country and CAORC.
- Feasibility in terms of resources and amount of time allocated
to the project.
- Need for residence in host country to accomplish the project.
- Proficiency in language required to complete research project,
if applicable.
Notification
Notification of fellowship status will be made available to each
applicant via email by April 15, 2010.
Fellows are advised that it can take up to six months to obtain the
necessary research clearance.
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