ORC FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
In addition to CAORC Fellowships, each Overseas Research Center offers fellowships, grants, and language and cultural programs specific to its region. Browse the summary list below to learn about opportunities in your region of interest. Several of the ORC grant programs use the online application portal SM Apply.
Please note: this list is intended as a reference; ORCs may offer additional opportunities (i.e. additional fellowships, publication awards, workshops, etc.) not listed here. Always check with the ORC directly for the most current information.
John F. Richards Fellowship Program: These fellowships can be used towards short-term projects or other research programs to advance scholarship on Afghanistan. Every year, AIAS awards a series fellowships through the John F. Richards Fellowship program. The Richards Fellowship program is named in honor of belated Professor John F. Richards, one of the founding members of AIAS and a proponent of scholarship on South Asia. The fellowships are divided into two categories: Research Travel Fellowships and Afghanistan Research Grants.
Transnational Research Fellowship: This fellowship supports innovative research on U.S.-Mexican Transnationalism and Communities to foster collaboration among U.S. and Mexican scholars. Research projects on any aspect of U.S.-Mexican Transnationalism and Communities will be considered. To qualify you must be U.S. graduate students and scholars with doctorates to conduct up to eight weeks of research in Mexico.
Fellowships for Bangladesh Citizens: for Bangladeshi graduate students studying in the U.S. The fellowships are intended to help PhD and Masters students meet expenses related to scholarly research and creative endeavors in Bangladesh.
Khmer Language and Culture Study Program(KLCP): provides an opportunity for US and non-US faculty, post-graduate researchers, and upper level of undergraduates to participate in an intensive eight-week study abroad program in Phnom Penh, and Siem Reap Cambodia.
Senior Fellowship Program: in-country research fellowships for US, Cambodian and French scholars (or EU citizens holding a degree from a French university) and doctoral students on a yearly basis.
Junior Resident Fellows Program: A six-week program in Cambodia for Cambodian, French, and US students to live and study alongside peers about contemporary Cambodian history and society.
Graduate Student and Post-doctoral Fellowships: CAARI offers a large number of fellowships specifically for graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and scholars at all levels
Antiquities Endowment Fund: one-year and three-year grants for discrete and highly focused professional projects that serve the conservation, preservation and documentation needs of Egyptian antiquities that are more than 100 years old. Projects may involve the actual conservation or protection of sites, buildings or objects; the participation of conservators or other appropriate specialists in antiquities projects; the training of conservators and students; or the production of publications and presentations that disseminate knowledge about Egypt's cultural heritage.
Research Fellowships and Pre-dissertation Travel Grants: ARCE offers funded fellowships and a research associate program for a wide range of scholars looking to conduct research in Egypt. Previous fellows have represented the fields of anthropology, archaeology, architecture, fine art, art history, Coptic studies, economics, Egyptology, history, humanistic social sciences, Islamic studies, literature, political science, religious studies and even music. See the full list by clicking the link.
Post-Doctoral and Senior Scholar Fellowships: The School has funding available for short-term and academic year study for recent PhD graduates, as well as established scholars, in a wide range of fellowships.
Fellowships and Grants for Graduate and Post-Doctoral Students: there are a large number of funding opportunities separated by short-term and academic year for graduate and post doctoral students.
Summer Seminars: 18-day programs that focus on specific cultural themes, historical periods, or geographical regions and led by exceptional scholars of Classics and related fields. Under their direction, participants study texts, visit archaeological sites and museums, and engage with expert guest speakers in order to deepen their understanding of Greece’s landscape, history, literature, and material culture.
Summer Session: a six-week session to become acquainted with Greece and its major monuments, and to improve your understanding of the country’s landscape, history, material culture, and literature from antiquity to the present. Led by exceptional scholars of Classics and related fields, participants visit many of the major archaeological sites, monuments, and museums throughout Greece. The program has a strong academic component and participants are expected to research and then present topics on-site.
AIFIS/CAORC Grants for American Scholars: for graduate and post-graduate researchers who are US citizens and wish to pursue their research activities in Indonesia to conduct research projects in any field of contemporary and traditional Indonesian Studies. AIFIS encourages applications for projects that foreground collaboration with Indonesian counterparts as well as that produce open-source content for public dissemination and/or curriculum development.
AIFIS/Luce Grants for American and Indonesian Scholars: graduate students, researchers, academics, and/or faculty members based in Indonesia to conduct research in the U.S. Through competitive application, 10 scholars will be selected to each receive a grant of $7000 for research and travel to the U.S. These grants are designed to foster engagement between Indonesian and American scholars and to raise existing collaborations to new levels by stimulating small cooperative projects in any field of Indonesian studies, or social sciences, humanities and STEM fields for which the Indonesian context is central to the research.
Indian Language Programs: intensive, immersion-based training in modern and classical South Asian languages at multiple sites in India. Courses regularly include Bangla (Bengali), Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Mughal Persian, Pali/Prakrit, Punjabi and many more.
Junior and Senior Research Fellowships: Junior research fellowships are for graduate students conducting research for their doctoral dissertations in India and Senior Long- and Short-term Fellowships are for those holding the PhD degree to pursue further research in India and to establish formal affiliation with an Indian institution.
Performing & Creative Arts Fellowships: available to accomplished practitioners of the performing arts of India and creative artists who demonstrate that study in India would enhance their skills, develop their capabilities to teach or perform in the U.S., enhance American involvement with India’s artistic traditions or strengthen their links with peers in India.
Persian Language Study in Tehran: for advanced language study at the Sa’di Foundation in Tehran. Applicants must be U.S. citizens traveling on a U.S. passport, who are enrolled in a Doctoral or Masters program in the humanities or social sciences, have an approved research topic that requires use of Persian, and have completed at least one full academic year of Persian language study.
Senior and Pre-doctoral Dissertation Fellowships in Iranian Studies: one- to two-month research travel to countries with resources essential to the dissertation. These fellowships enable students in the field of Iranian Studies to acquaint themselves with the range of academic activities and resources in relevant foreign countries.
Dissertation Prizes: Every two years, TARII awards the best U.S. doctoral dissertations on Iraq. The Donny George Youkhana Dissertation Prize (named in 2011) recognizes the best dissertation on ancient Iraq. A second award recognizes the best dissertation on modern or medieval Iraq. The competition is open to U.S. citizens at any university worldwide and any student at a U.S. university.
Fellowships for US Citizens: Proposals are invited from U.S. scholars every year for feasible research on Iraq-related topics to be conducted outside of the United States from American post-doctoral and advanced pre-doctoral researchers. Joint Iraqi - American proposals will also be considered.
Rome Prize: For over a century, the American Academy in Rome has awarded the Rome Prize to support innovative and cross-disciplinary work in the arts and humanities. Each year, the prize is awarded to about thirty artists and scholars who represent the highest standard of excellence and who are in the early or middle stages of their careers.
Summer Programs: The Academy in Rome offers Summer programs that are designed to provide qualified participants with a well-founded understanding of the growth and development of the city of Rome through a careful study of material remains and literary sources.
Visiting Artists and Scholars: This program provides artists and scholars of all nationalities the opportunity to experience the intellectual and artistic freedom, interdisciplinary exchange, and innovation that characterizes Academy life. Visiting Artists and Scholars can rent living and working space at the Academy and are granted access to the Academy’s noted resources, including the Library, the Photographic Archive, and the Norton–Van Buren Study Collection.
Affiliated Fellowships: There are currently 11 affiliated fellowships that offer a wide range of opportunities for artists and scholars of a variety of disciplines who are in different stages of their academic careers.
Rome Sustainable Food Project: A production and teaching kitchen whose daily success relies strongly upon a team of interns and visiting cooks. Living and training in Rome for a period of five-and-a-half months, they learn alongside an American and Italian kitchen staff to cook for the Academy community. The teaching philosophy of RSFP chefs takes root in a practical, hands-on approach to learning. By “diving in” to the busy workday of a professional kitchen, interns learn to prepare seasonal produce with a multitude of techniques.
Pre-doctoral and Post-doctoral Fellowships: Fellowships are one to four months and come with a stipend and room/board at the Albright. Fellowships are open to students and scholars in Near Eastern studies from prehistory through the Ottoman period, including the fields of archaeology, anthropology, art history, biblical studies, epigraphy, historical geography, history, language, literature, philology, religion, and related disciplines.
Sean W. Deaver Memorial Prize: This prize provides $750 for the best paper presented at a conference which treats a topic in the field of Syro-Palestinian or Biblical Archaeology. Authors must be Ph.D. candidates in the semester in which the winner is announced (Spring 2022). They may be of any nationality but the paper must be in English.
Summer Study Program: an in-depth on-the-ground archaeological and historical introduction to the Southern Levant from antiquity through the Middle Ages. Participants visit more than seventy historic places, archaeological sites, and museums over a three-week expedition across the region. Students participate in researching and presenting topics on-site and interact with scholars across a wide array of fields.
Named Fellowships: There are a number of named fellowships that are to encourage and facilitate scholarly research and archeology in Jordan. Undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers of all nationalities are eligible to apply.
Undergraduate, Graduate Student, and Post-doctoral Fellowships: ACOR has a number of other fellowships including CAORC and NEH affiliated fellowships that can be found through the link in the link above. Click to see the entire list and for links further explaining the opportunities, the qualifications needed, as well as how to apply.
Short-Term & Long-Term Research Grants: The Grant Program offers grants to U.S. scholars to conduct research on North African topics in Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, or Tunisia. AIMS Overseas Research Centers in Oran, Tunis, and Tangier facilitate AIMS grants and support AIMS scholars. AIMS funds only primary research conducted in the Maghrib.
Field Research Fellowship: The program will provide awards of up to $4,000 for student, post-doctoral, or faculty to conduct short-term field research and should be conducted in conjunction with a Research Sponsor, such as a faculty member or senior researcher, and involve at least 6 weeks for students or 3 weeks for post-docs or faculty of fieldwork in Mongolia.
Library Fellowship: This fellowship supports advanced US graduate students, faculty members, or professionals in library and information sciences from colleges and universities to conduct short-term library development projects and/or research in Mongolia for a period of up to 12 weeks between May and October.
Intensive Mongolian Summer Language Program: invites students and scholars to enroll in an eight week Intensive Mongolian Language Program in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, which provides stipends of up to $2,000 to cover the cost of tuition, to provide Intermediate-level students of the Mongolian language with an opportunity to enhance their communicative competence through systematic improvement of reading, writing, listening and speaking skills, in an authentic environment.
Mongolia Field School: This program is open to undergraduate and graduate students, professionals, teachers, and life-long learners interested in exploring aspects of Mongolia’s culture and geography. ACMS is offering three summer courses in the summer of 2025. Fellowships are available.
Short-Term Fellowship Program for US Graduate Students: competition for research that will contribute to studies on Burma in any aspect of its wide linguistic, cultural, religious, and ethnic diversity and to a better understanding of the country’s past or present political and socio-economic situation. Applicants must be U.S. Graduate Students currently enrolled in a graduate program (Master’s or Doctoral level) at an institution of higher education in the U.S. or elsewhere.
CAORC-INYA Fellowship for U.S. Post Graduate Scholars: a competition for research that will contribute to studies on Burma in any aspect of its wide linguistic, cultural, religious, and ethnic diversity and to a better understanding of the country’s past or present political and socio-economic situation.
Fellowships and Grants: These awards support research or other scholarly projects that will advance knowledge of the Himalayan region. ANHS will award one CAORC-supported Himalayan Studies Fellowship to a US doctoral candidate, and one CAORC-supported Himalayan Studies Fellowship to a US scholar who has already earned their PhD. ANHS will also offer one fellowship funded through private funds to pre-PhD students and early career scholars of any citizenship, with priority consideration for scholars from the region.
The James Fisher Prize for First Books on the Himalayan Region: honors the scholarly contributions of Dr. James Fisher to scholarship on the region. The prize will recognize an outstanding book on the Himalayan region, published recently. Single or co-authored books will be accepted which have high quality of research, significant contribution to Himalayan Studies, notable innovation, and clarity of writing in the English language.
Introduction to Urdu Language and Culture: This online course is open to anyone interested in exploring the Urdu language and culture. Faculty members at community Colleges and Minority-Serving Institutions are eligible to receive full funding to participate in the course.
Conference Travel Grants: fund travel to scholarly conferences for the presentation of papers or organization of panels on topics relevant to Pakistan Studies.
Junior and Senior Research Fellowships: opportunities for pre- and post-doctoral candidates where research must be at least 2 months and less than 9 months.
Short-term Research Grants: offer research travel grants to Pakistan each year for up to 3 months and strongly encourages graduate students to apply.
Book Prize: soliciting books (single authored monographs, no edited volumes) published during the last three years, or nearly published books (galleys must be available) for the annual AIPS book prize.
Graduate/Post-doctoral Fellowships: in support of research in the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia), these are open to U.S. citizens, U.S. permanent residents, Canadian citizens, or Canadian permanent residents. Projects in all fields in the social sciences, humanities, and related sciences are eligible. Proposals will be judged on their quality and on the potential of the research to strengthen scholarship on the South Caucasus.
Research & Mentoring Fellowships: in support of research and mentoring activities in the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and/or Georgia). The goals are 1) to support research in and the study of the South Caucasus; 2) to select, recognize and financially support individuals who demonstrate high potential to contribute to research in this region; 3) to support a mentoring relationship that will both develop the academic skills of the mentee and strengthen ties between the US and host country.
Short Term Research Fellowships: in support of research activities in the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia). Projects proposing research on studying climate change as well as pandemic response are especially encouraged, but all strong proposals on other topics will be given full consideration. Fellows are required to present a lecture or workshop during their stay in the South Caucasus that is open to the public and acknowledge ARISC in any publications and presentations.
Collaborative Heritage Management Grant, Junior Research, Small Grants and more: ARISC also has a number of other fellowship and grant opportunities listed on their site. Click the link above to view more information and how to apply.
Dissertation Planning Grants: designed to enable graduate students intending to do doctoral research in Sri Lanka to make a pre-dissertation visit to Sri Lanka to investigate the feasibility of their topic, to sharpen their research design, or to make other practical arrangements for future research. Applicants must be enrolled at an American university, or they may be US citizens enrolled at a foreign university.
Language Instruction Grants: support students and scholars who wish to acquire or improve language skills. These funds can be used to help to defray the costs of language instruction in Sinhala, Tamil, or Pali. Normally, the instruction must take place in Sri Lanka and the center will supply recipients with advice about language programs and tutors. The program is supported with funds provided by the US Department of Education.
Research Fellowships: support two to six months of research in Sri Lanka by US citizens who already hold a PhD or the equivalent at the time they begin their fellowship tenure. Both scholars with little or no experience in Sri Lanka as well as specialists are encouraged to apply.
Advanced Turkish Language Study Fellowships: for advanced participants in the summer program in intensive advanced Turkish language at Boğaziçi University* in Istanbul. This is a unique opportunity for intensive and immersive study of advanced Turkish language.
NEH-ARIT Fellowships: one to three advanced long-term fellowships for research in affiliation with ARIT centers in Turkey, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The fields of study cover all periods of history in the general range of the humanities and include humanistic oriented aspects of the social sciences, prehistory, history, art, archaeology, literature, and linguistics, as well as interdisciplinary aspects of cultural history. The fellowships tenures range from four to twelve continuous months.
Research Fellowships: Grants for tenures up to one academic year will be considered; applications for projects of shorter duration, as brief as one or two months, are also supported. ARIT offers research and study facilities as well as connections with colleagues, institutions, and authorities through its branch centers in Istanbul and Ankara. Scholars and advanced graduate students engaged in research on ancient, medieval, or modern times in Turkey, in any field of the humanities and social sciences, are eligible to apply.
Pre-doctoral & Post-doctoral Fellowships: provides funding for 2 to 3 month’s research in West Africa during the summer and is for the purpose of 1) preparing a doctoral research proposal; or 2) carrying out research related to the completion of another terminal degree program (e.g., MFA or MPH); 3) completing or elaborating upon an earlier project; 4) initiating a new project; 5)enhancing understanding of a particular topic in order to improve teaching effectiveness or broaden course offerings This competition is open to U.S. citizens already holding a Ph.D. who are currently affiliated with an academic institution or who work in another related domain or who are currently enrolled in graduate programs at institutions of higher education in the United States.
Residency Fellowships: offers Residencies for WARA member institutions to host a West African Scholar on their campus. Each residency will last 4-8 weeks and will provide the visiting scholar with opportunities for library research, guest lecturing, and/or collaborative work with American colleagues.
Fellowships for US Scholars: U.S. citizens who are either current graduate students or post graduate scholars as well as team submissions are welcome, though all team members must meet the eligibility criteria. This fellowship enables scholars to travel and complete research on Yemen in any academic discipline. Travel must be carried out outside of the U.S. and Yemen.