The CAORC Multi-Country Research Fellowship is now accepting applications with a deadline of November 16, 2021.

CAORC is pleased to announce the 2021 fellowship recipients.

CAORC's Multi-Country Research Fellowship & NEH Senior Research Fellowship are accepting applications with a deadline of January 12, 2021.

CAORC is pleased to announce the 2020 award recipients for the Multi-Country Research Fellowship & NEH Senior Research Fellowship.

CAORC is pleased to announce the 2019-20 fellowship applications are now available online!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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