CAORC Multi-Country Research Fellowship Accepting Applications
The CAORC Multi-Country Research Fellowship is now accepting applications with a deadline of November 16, 2021.
- Jul 1, 2021
CAORC Announces 2021 Fellows
CAORC is pleased to announce the 2021 fellowship recipients.
- Sep 8, 2020
CAORC Fellowships Now Accepting Applications
CAORC's Multi-Country Research Fellowship & NEH Senior Research Fellowship are accepting applications with a deadline of January 12, 2021.
- Jun 10, 2020
CAORC Announces Fellowship Recipients
CAORC is pleased to announce the 2020 award recipients for the Multi-Country Research Fellowship & NEH Senior Research Fellowship.
- Sep 9, 2019
2019-20 CAORC Fellowships: Now Accepting Applications
CAORC is pleased to announce the 2019-20 fellowship applications are now available online!
- Jun 10, 2019
Ravana’s Mechanical Flying Peacock
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 Research Fellow, discusses the origins and implications of Ravana's flying machine, a popular figure in Sri Lankan versions of the Ramayana epic. All photos are courtesy of the author. Last February while traveling along Sri Lanka’s southern coast, not far outside of Galle I revisited the museum at the former home of Mart
- May 30, 2019
CAORC Announces 2019 Fellowship Recipients
CAORC is pleased to announce the 2019 award recipients for the Multi-Country Research Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Research Fellowship, and the Mary Ellen Lane Multi-Country Travel Award. Multi-Country Research Fellowship Now in its 26th year, the Multi-Country Research Fellowship supports advanced regional or trans-regional research in the humanities, social sciences, or allied natural sciences for U.S. doctoral candidates and postdoctoral scholar
- Apr 18, 2019
Shifting Deltas: Multi-sited Fieldwork in Bangladesh and Viet Nam
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 handlebars with renewed vigor. The objective when driving in Viet Nam is not so much to maintain a particular course as to continually position and reposition yourself relative to the hundreds of other ever-shifting motorbikes on the road, much like a school of fish, I imagine. The shimmering heat and sea of colorful hel
- Jan 7, 2019
Deadline Approaching: Apply for CAORC Fellowships by January 24!
CAORC offers two fellowship programs, the NEH Senior Research Fellowship and Multi-Country Research Fellowship, which allow fellows to visit and carry out research within our network of Overseas Research Centers (ORCs). The NEH Senior Research Fellowship supports advanced research in the humanities for U.S. postdoctoral scholars, and foreign national postdoctoral scholars who have been residents in the US for three or more years. The Multi-Country Fellowship Program supports
- Nov 29, 2018
Research Fellowships Available from American Overseas Research Centers
It’s fellowship application season! In addition to providing our own fellowships for international research, CAORC supports fellowship and grant programs run by the network of American Overseas Research Centers (ORCs). As specialists in their respective world regions, ORCs provide a superb scholarly infrastructure to visiting researchers, with services including libraries and archives, assistance with research permits, housing, hosting of conferences and collaborations, and m
- Nov 8, 2018
A Geographer’s Field Notes: The CAORC-NEH Senior Fellow Experience in Senegal
En route to plant mangrove seeds with Haidar in Casamance (Photo: Barton) In this essay, CAORC-NEH Senior Research Fellow Karen Barton discusses her research experience in coastal Senegal, where locals meet large scale environmental changes with resilience and optimism. The CAORC National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Research Fellowship Program supports advanced research in the humanities for U.S. postdoctoral scholars, and foreign national postdoctoral scholars who ha
- Sep 4, 2018
2018-19 CAORC Fellowships: Now Accepting Applications
CAORC is pleased to announce the 2018-19 fellowship applications are now available online! CAORC offers two fellowship programs that allow recipients to visit and carry out research within our network of Overseas Research Centers: the NEH Senior Research Fellowship and the Multi-Country Research Fellowship. The NEH Senior Research Fellowship Program supports advanced research in the humanities for U.S. postdoctoral scholars, and foreign national postdoctoral scholars who have
- Aug 10, 2018
Multi-Country Fellowships at 25: The Colonial Political Economy of Trans-Frontier Trade through Pesh
This essay is Part Five in a series commemorating the 25th anniversary of CAORC's Multi-Country Research Fellowship Program. Read Part One: Explaining Countries’ Differential Success in Combating HIV/AIDS, by Rachel Sullivan Robinson Read Part Two: Long-Term Agricultural Sustainability in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean, by John M. Marston Read Part Three: Incense Production in Ancient Southern Arabia, by Joy McCorriston Read Part Four: Fighting Malaria in the Mediterranean
- Aug 6, 2018
Multi-Country Fellowships at 25: Fighting Malaria in the Mediterranean
This essay is Part Four in a series commemorating the 25th anniversary of CAORC's Multi-Country Research Fellowship Program. Read Part One: Explaining Countries’ Differential Success in Combating HIV/AIDS, by Rachel Sullivan Robinson Read Part Two: Long-Term Agricultural Sustainability in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean, by John M. Marston Read Part Three: Incense Production in Ancient Southern Arabia, by Joy McCorriston Read Part Five: Colonial Political Economy of Trans-F
- Aug 1, 2018
Multi-Country Fellowships at 25: Incense Production in Ancient Southern Arabia
This essay is Part Three in a series commemorating the 25th anniversary of CAORC's Multi-Country Research Fellowship Program. Read Part One: Explaining Countries’ Differential Success in Combating HIV/AIDS, by Rachel Sullivan Robinson Read Part Two: Long-Term Agricultural Sustainability in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean, by John M. Marston Read Part Four: Fighting Malaria in the Mediterranean, by Marcus Hall Read Part Five: Colonial Political Economy of Trans-Frontier Trad
- Jul 30, 2018
Multi-Country Fellowships at 25: Agricultural Sustainability in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean
This essay is Part Two in a series commemorating the 25th anniversary of CAORC's Multi-Country Research Fellowship Program. Read Part One: Explaining Countries’ Differential Success in Combating HIV/AIDS, by Rachel Sullivan Robinson Read Part Three: Incense Production in Ancient Southern Arabia, by Joy McCorriston Read Part Four: Fighting Malaria in the Mediterranean, by Marcus Hall Read Part Five: Colonial Political Economy of Trans-Frontier Trade through Peshawar, by Shah M
- Jul 26, 2018
Celebrating 25 Years of CAORC's Multi-Country Fellowship
CAORC’s Multi-Country Research Fellowship, which supports advanced regional and trans-regional research in the humanities, social sciences, and allied natural sciences, launched in 1993. In the inaugural year, 12 fellows pursued advanced research in 14 overseas research centers across 13 countries. Funded by a grant through the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the program met a real need for interdisciplinary, trans-regional international
- May 15, 2018
CAORC Announces 2018 Fellowship Recipients
CAORC is pleased to announce the 2018 award recipients for the Multi-Country Research Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Research Fellowship, and the Mary Ellen Lane Multi-Country Travel Award. Multi-Country Research Fellowship Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, the Multi-Country Research Fellowship supports advanced regional or trans-regional research in the humanities, social sciences, or allied natural sciences for U.S. doctoral candidates an
- May 14, 2018
Under the Sovereignty of Lok Ta - Spirit Owners, Climate Change, and Collaborative Management
Lok Ta, “the owner of the water and the land” in Cambodia’s protected Prey Lang Forest, is rapidly losing out to deforestation and cashew plantations. Photo by Courtney Work. In this essay, CAORC-NEH Senior Research Fellow Courtney Work discusses the intertwined economies of development and environmental conservation in Cambodia’s Prey Lang Forest. For over a thousand years, the indigenous Kuy people lived sustainably in Cambodia’s northern Prey Lang Forest. The sovereign own
- Jan 9, 2018
Deadline Approaching: Apply for CAORC Fellowships by January 31
CAORC offers two fellowship programs, the NEH Senior Research Fellowship and Multi-Country Research Fellowship, which allow fellows to visit and carry out research within our network of Overseas Research Centers. The NEH Senior Research Fellowship supports advanced research in the humanities for U.S. postdoctoral scholars, and foreign national postdoctoral scholars who have been residents in the US for three or more years. The Multi-Country Fellowship Program supports advance