Mary Altair reflects on what Senegal teaches us, in spite of our many differences, about the commonalities of the shared human experience.

What are the links between an 18th-century smallpox outbreak in Mexico and present-day resistance to the measles vaccine in New York City?

Paul Edleman on the social and political functions served by urban spaces in the historic city of Lahore, Pakistan.

The participants in CAORC’s 2019 faculty development seminar to India. Karen Guerrero, Assistant Professor at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College of Arizona...

Preparations for a communal meal served to participants in the Senegal faculty seminar. Photo courtesy Mbye Cham. In this essay, De Anna Reese, a 2019 partic...

Local volunteers excavating through rubble to find objects buried under the destruction of Yemen’s Dhamar Museum. This CAORC Field Note is adapted from the o...

A traditional Senegalese music performance enjoyed at WARC during the 2019 faculty development seminar. Photo courtesy the author. In this essay, Errol Monte...

Across all segments of Indian society, women play critical roles in helping conserve and manage increasingly limited water resources. Janet Armitage, Associa...

Serendipitous meeting with a circle on the sand dunes at Lac Rose, Senegal. Photo by the author. In this essay, Christine Farias, a 2019 participant in CAORC...

The Glass House, a central landmark of the Lalbagh Botanical Gardens, was built in 1889. Photo by Muhammad Mahdi Karim - Own work, GFDL 1.2, https://commons.w...

Ravana’s forces of land, sea and air—c. 2009 relief mural at the Sanmira Hotel, Unawatuna, Sri Lanka In this essay, Justin Henry, a 2017-18 CAORC NEH Senior ...

Documenting pottery recovered from an ancient burial cave near Idlib, Syria. In June 2015, when the Syrian civil war was raging across the countryside of Idl...

In August 2018, CAORC’s J.M. Kaplan Responsive Preservation Initiative sponsored a ten-day workshop by the IWAN Center for Architectural Heritage in Gaza to ...

The Great Mosque of Touba in Senegal In this essay, Sobia Saleem, a 2019 participant in CAORC’s faculty development seminar to Senegal, writes about her visi...

A member of the Al-Darb Al-Ahmar Monuments Project photographs the blue-tiled walls of Cairo’s Blue Mosque. In this essay, Hayam Ahmed Mohammed of Egypt’s Mi...

Janet Armitage (left) and Janny Li (right) on a sunrise elephant ride to Amber Fort in Jaipur. In this essay, Janny Li, a 2019 participant in CAORC’s faculty...

Do one thing every day that scares you. This bit of coffee mug wisdom flits across my mind as I narrowly dodge a motorcycle on the crowded street and grip my...

Sippo Island, Toubakouta, Senegal In this essay, Stephanie Lovett, a 2019 participant in CAORC’s faculty development seminar to Senegal, discusses the essent...

The India Faculty Development Seminar group with Dr. Balasubramaniam “Only when we take a comprehensive and ecosystem approach to our thinking, can we bring ...

The towering entrance, known locally as Imi n Zawiya, to the traditional Moroccan Berber village of Aguddim, nestled in the beautiful Zawiya Ahansal valley o...