Council of American Overseas Research Centers
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Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) "launched full-time operations in 1986 with grants from the" Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Exxon Foundation and the J.P. Getty Trust. [1]
Contents
Services
According to its website, it performs the following services for scholars doing overseas research: [1]
- Providing research libraries, technical services, and living accommodations
- Serving as a base for field expeditions
- Supporting publication of papers, books and serials, newsletters and information bulletins
- Sponsoring joint scholarly projects and offering a program of conferences, lectures, seminars, concerts and exhibitions
- Providing a place for contact and exchange between American researchers and their host-country counterparts as well as third-country colleagues working in the host-country
- Liaison with host country governments and universities in obtaining access to research sources
- Monitoring and offering advice on the research climate in the host-country
Funding
"CAORC is currently funded in part by the following Public and Private Institutions:
- U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
- Smithsonian Institution
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Center membership dues
Member Centers
- Italy - American Academy in Rome (AAR)
- Jordan - American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR)
- Israel - W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (AIAR)
- Bangladesh - American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (AIBS)
- Iran - American Institute of Iranian Studies (AIIrS)
- India - American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS)
- Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria - American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS)
- Pakistan - American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS)
- Sri Lanka- American Institute of Sri Lankan Studies (AISLS)
- Yemen - American Institute for Yemeni Studies (AIYS)
- Egypt - American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE)
- Turkey - American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT)
- Greece - American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA)
- Cyprus - Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (CAARI)
- Cambodia - Center for Khmer Studies (CKS)
- South Asia - Center for South Asia Libraries (CSAL)
- Mexico - Mexico-North Research Network (MNRN)
- West Bank and Gaza - Palestinian American Research Center (PARC)
- Senegal - West African Research Association (WARA)
Developing Centers
- Mongolia - American Center for Mongolian Studies (ACMS)
- Afghanistan - American Institute of Afghanistan Studies (AIAS)
- Bulgaria - American Research Center in Sofia (ARCS)
- Iraq - The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII)
Directors
Executive Committee:
- Executive Director - Mary Ellen Lane - Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC)
- Chair - Catherine deG. Vanderpool - American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA)
- Vice-Chair - I. William Zartman - American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS); Jacob Blaustein Professor of International Organizations and Conflict Resolution; Director of the Conflict Management Program, School of Advanced International Studies Johns Hopkins University
- Treasurer - Philip Mattar - Palestinian American Research Center (PARC); Guest Scholar, United States Institute of Peace
- Secretary - Ralph Nicholas - American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS); William Rainey Harper Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Social Sciences, University of Chicago
- Former Chair - Richard Lariviere - Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor, University of Kansas
- Executive Committee Member-at-Large - Kenneth Sams - American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT); Professor of Classical Archaeology, Department of Classics, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
- Executive Committee Member-at-Large - Jeanne Marecek - American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies (AISLS); William Rand Kenan Professor of Psychology, Swarthmore College
- Smithsonian Ex-Offico Member - William L. Merrill - Mexico-North Research Network (MNRN); Smithsonian Institution
Board Members:
- Lois Pattison de Menil, Center for Khmer Studies (CKS)
- Nan Frederick, American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR)
- McGuire Gibson, American Institute for Yemeni Studies (AIYS); Professor of Archaeology, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
- Maria Grosz-Ngate, West African Research Association (WARA); Associate Director, African Studies Program, Indiana University
- William Hanaway, Jr., American Institute of Iranian Studies (AIIrS); Emeritus Faculty, University of Pennsylvania
- Benson Harer, American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE)
- Ellen Herscher, Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (CAARI)
- Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS); Director of Center for South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Bernard Reilly, Center for South Asian Libraries (CSAL); President, Center for Research Libraries
- Brian Rose, American Academy in Rome (AAR); James B. Pritchard Professor of Classical Archaeology, Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania
- Joe D. Seger, American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR);Professor of Religion and Director, Cobb Institute of Archaeology, Mississippi State University.
- John Spencer, W.F. Albright Institute of Archeological Research (AIAR); Professor of Religious Studies; Director, Honors Program, John Carroll University
- Guy Welbon, American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (AIBS); Chairman, Graduate Group in Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Contact details
P.O. Box 37012
MRC 178
Washington, DC 20013-7012
Phone: (202) 633-1599
Fax: (202) 786-2430
Web: http://www.caorc.org
References
- ↑ About page, Council of American Overseas Research Centers, accessed March 2008.
