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

ACOR was honored to receive a visit from President Janet Napolitano of the University of California earlier this month. It was great to share information about ACOR’s activities in supporting research and cultural heritage in Jordan, and to introduce current ACOR fellows, including our current ACOR-CAORC pre-doctoral fellow, Rawan Arar of University of California San Diego, and NEH Fellow Dr. Frances Hasso, of Duke University, also an Alum of University of California, Berkele

CAORC is pleased to announce the second round of award recipients for the Responsive Preservation Initiative for Cultural Heritage Resources. Pictured: members of the Wadi el-Hudi Expedition, recipients of an RPI grant, examine Egyptian pot sherds. The RPI program is designed to fund projects for urgent, emergent, or priority issues that need to be addressed quickly. Small grants are available for rapid emergency projects in Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Iraq, Israel, Jorda

This year, the Amman-based American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) is celebrating 50 years as a research center in Jordan. Founded in Amman in 1968 as a gathering of archaeologists "in a small flat, with a handful of books," ACOR is now a leading center of research on Jordan and the surrounding area, with a particular focus on archaeology and cultural heritage. ACOR Director Barbara Porter and HRH Prince Raad Bin Zeid The Center has been marking the anniversary through a

A delegation of U.S. senators visited the ongoing work of the American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) at Petra, the ancient city in southern Jordan, in February 2018. The delegation included the following senators: Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Christopher Coons (D-DE) Jeff Flake (R-AZ) Bill Cassidy (R-LA) Cory Gardner (R-CO) Maggie Hassan (D-NH) Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) The American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) in Amman, Jordan, promotes research and publication acros

"I quickly discovered preserving relics of the past is far from the fusty hobby of be-spectacled, basement-dwelling librarians. Rather, it is a stubborn act of resistance; a refusal to let a rich cultural resource become irrelevant by giving it new life as an accessible digital collection." So reflects Project Archivist Jessica Holland on the new digital photo archive from the American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR), in an essay for Muftah magazine. Made possible by an Am

CAORC is pleased to announce the first award recipients for the Responsive Preservation Initiative for Cultural Heritage Resources. The RPI program is designed to fund projects for urgent, emergent, or priority issues that need to be addressed quickly. Small grants are available for rapid emergency projects in Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, The Palestinian Territories, Tunisia, Turkey, and Yemen.​ Applications are currently being accepte

Congratulations to the American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) and their Temple of the Winged Lions (TWLCRM) project for being awarded a second grant from the Ambassador's Fund for Cultural Preservation! In a ceremony at Petra, U.S. Ambassador to Jordan Alice G. Wells launched a grant awarded under the Department of State’s Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) to expand conservation of the Temple of the Winged Lions. The grant, totalling $200,000, was awarded

CAORC, and many of the ORCs, will again be attending the annual Middle East Studies Association (MESA) conference this November 21-24 in Denver, Colorado. Below is a list of panels associated with ORCs: The American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) is sponsoring, or has participants on, seven panels: - "Tunisia’s Progress Since the Revolution" (P4066) Saturday, 11/21, 5:30pm - "A Century of Women’s Rights in the MENA: Where Have the Men Gone?" (P4061) Sunday, 11/22, 11am

The American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) Associate Director Dr. Glenn Corbett and ACOR Administrator Firaz Bqain were profiled in a recent newspaper article for their archaeology work studying an open-air mosque from the 7th-8th century in Wadi Shireh in the southern desert of Jordan. Read the article here! #Jordan #Archaeology #ACOR

At the invitation of the U.S. Embassy, American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) Director Barbara Porter participated on 9 June 2015 in the closing ceremony for the U.S. Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) grant for a project at Umm al Jimal in northern Jordan, just south of the Syrian border. The site encompasses a prosperous Byzantine town with many 5th and 6th century houses and churches built out of the local black basalt. The AFCP-funded project focused