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

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

Two Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) fellows, Jennifer Kelly and Maryam Griffin, have received University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowships! Jennifer will be at UC San Diego working with PARC fellow Gary Fields on her work, while Maryam will be at UC Davis working with Sunaina Maira. The University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program was established in 1984 to encourage outstanding women and minority Ph.D. recipients to pursue