Mitch Bacci discusses his research on the opiate trade in the Eastern Mediterranean between the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

CAORC-NEH Senior Research Fellowship alumna, Karen Barton, discusses how the fellowship opened up numerous doors for her.

Seminar participants Jessica Barnes and Amar Sawhney discuss the many challenges facing India’s informal settlements.

Seminar participants Amar Sawhney and Jessica Barnes discuss why green spaces are so critical to urban planning in Delhi and India’s cities.

Through the RPI program, the Daw’an MudBrick Architecture Foundation is restoring an Islamic shrine damaged during Yemen’s ongoing conflict.

Former Multi-Country Research Fellow, Rachel Kulick, examines human-environment relationships today vs in Bronze Age settlements.

Yemen’s heritage professionals are providing hope that the country’s shared past will prove far more durable than its current divisions.

Senegal seminar participant Verny Varela highlights the musical connections between West Africa and Colombia, where he was born and raised.

Pakistan seminar participant Rajender Kaur discusses the history and legacy of abandoned Sikh temples in Lahore and Islamabad.

Seminar participant Jose Alejandro Gonzalez-Suarez discusses India’s challenges and how innovative solutions offer hope in uncertain times.

Senegal participant Rebecca Jacobs-Pollez explains how the legendary baobab tree helped her better understand the country and its people.

Shabana Meyering, participant in the faculty seminar to India, offers her personal reflections on two decades of change in the country.

Faculty seminar participant Kimberly Monroe reflects on the deep musical and cultural traditions that live on in Senegal's hip-hop artists.

Faculty seminar participant Hoa Nguyen discusses how Senegal’s cultural and geographic diversity may be the key to its future prosperity.

Pauline Sullivan, a 2020 seminar participant, discusses how innovative approaches to handicrafts are helping sustain Jordanian communities.

Mukila Maitha, participant in the faculty seminar to India, examines Delhi’s suffocating smog and what is being done to lessen its impact.

Anita Gaul, participant in the Senegal faculty seminar, conveys how the experience transformed her understanding of West Africa.

Joylin Namie, participant in the CAORC faculty seminar to Jordan, discusses challenges to sustainable development in marginal environments.

As classes shift online and people begin to telework, the CAORC network of 25 overseas research centers has a wealth of online resources.

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