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![]() American Center for Mongolian Studies is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization promoting scholarship in Mongolia. |
![]() AIYS is the only American interdisciplinary academic organization active on the Arabian peninsula. It is the primary link between the American academic community and the Yemeni government as well as the Yemeni academic community. |
![]() The mission of the American Academy in Rome, founded in 1894, is to foster the pursuit of advanced research and independent study in the fine arts and humanities. |
![]() The American Center of Oriental Research in Amman is the largest research institute in Amman, Jordan. Each visitor to the center marvels at the pleasant working atmosphere and the excellent working conditions provided by the facility and the staff manning the center. It is key to archaeological, social and scientific research in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the Middle East. The extensive 35,000 volume library provides researchers, students and professors with resources in numerous fields. |
![]() The mission of the Albright is to develop and disseminate scholarly knowledge of the literature, history, and culture of the Near East, as well as the study of the development of civilization from prehistory to the early Islamic period. |
![]() The American Institute of Afghanistan Studies (AIAS) is a private, non-profit organization run by scholars with the aim of promoting and encouraging the systematic study of the culture, society, land, languages, health, peoples and history of Afghanistan. It will be especially concerned with increasing the numbers of scholars in the United States who have expertise in, and understanding of Afghanistan, and to assist in the rebuilding of academic institutions and the advanced study of Afghanistan by Afghan scholars. |
![]() The American Institute of Bangladesh Studies is a consortium of U.S. universities and colleges involved in research on Bangladesh. Our mission is to improve the scholarly understanding of Bangladesh culture and society in the United States and to promote educational exchange between the U.S. and Bangladesh. By sending undergraduate and graduate students as well as senior scholars to Bangladesh, we also promote a better understanding of America in Bangladesh. |
![]() The American Institute of Iranian Studies (AIIrS) is a non-profit, non-governmental overseas research organization. It is an academic consortium, of which the members are universities and museums in North America with interests in the study of Iranian culture and civilization. Its officers and committee members are scholars representing member institutions as Trustees who serve voluntarily in order to promote international scholarly exchange and independent research in Iranian Studies. |
![]() The American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) was founded in 1961 to increase and improve understanding between India and the United States through academic research in various aspects of Indian life and thought. The Institute is headquartered at Gurgaon just outside of New Delhi and maintains branches in Calcutta and Pune. |
![]() Established in 1984, the American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) works to facilitate scholarly research on North Africa and to encourage the exchange of scholars and scholarly information. In the United States, AIMS serves as the professional association of scholars interested in the Maghrib. Abroad, it organizes programs in collaboration with scholars and institutions throughout North Africa and supports three overseas research centers: the Centre d’Etudes Maghrébines à Tunis (CEMAT), the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM) (formerly known as TALM) and Centre d'Etudes Maghrébines en Algérie (CEMA). |
![]() The American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS), a consortium of twenty-five American institutions of higher education, has promoted research by American scholars in and on Pakistan since 1973. The Institute’s Islamabad center is administered by a director and local staff and provides visiting fellows and scholars with programs of lectures, seminars and workshops, as well as introductions to public and private research institutions in Pakistan. |
![]() The American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies (AISLS) was established in 1995 to foster excellence in American research and teaching on Sri Lanka and to promote the exchange of scholars and scholarly information between the United States and Sri Lanka. The Institute serves as the professional association for United States-based scholars who are interested in Sri Lanka. Its members are drawn primarily from social sciences and humanities disciplines, including anthropology, education, history, Pali and Buddhist studies, comparative religion, geography, linguistics, literature and drama, performance studies and ethnomusicology, political science, psychology, sociology, and women’s studies. |
![]() The American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) is a private, nonprofit organization supporting research and conservation programs that encompass all aspects of Egyptian history and culture, from the prehistoric to modern day. For over a century, Americans have been active and productive partners with Egypt in the recovery and preservation of Egypt's cultural heritage. For the past half century, ARCE has filled a critical leadership function within the community of Egyptian and foreign scholars in Egypt who are active in the excavation, exploration, scholarship, and conservation of the country's cultural heritage. |
![]() ARCS is dedicated to research in the humanities and social sciences, with a special emphasis on the rich ancient, mediaeval, and more recent history of the region. It aims at fostering collaboration between North American, Bulgarian, and other Southeast-European scholars and promoting joint research in these academic areas. ARCS will develop a library, provide fellowships for research and language study, organize conferences and tours of significant archaeological, historical and cultural sites, and maintain close communication and collaboration with other American Overseas Research Centers. |
![]() Since its founding in 1964, the American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) has sought to promote American and Turkish research related to Turkey in all fields of the humanities and social sciences. ARIT sponsors a multi-faceted program of research fellowships for American, Turkish and Central European scholars as well as Turkish language study. ARIT fellows, Turkish scholars, and researchers from other countries participate in the active series of lectures and trips organized by the ARIT centers and contribute to the rich intellectual and academic exchange that ARIT seeks to foster. |
![]() Founded in 1881 by a group of leading scholars and businessmen, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) provides graduate students and scholars from some 168 affiliated American colleges and universities a base for research and study in the history and monuments of Hellenic civilization, from antiquity to the present. |
![]() The Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (CAARI) in Nicosia was established by the American Schools of Oriental Research in 1978 to provide scholars and students of all nationalities with the services and facilities on Cyprus comparable to those offered by other American overseas research centers in the Mediterranean region and the Near East. It is now housed in a large, attractive, centrally located building which offers economical, hostel-style accommodation in the J.R. Stewart Residence, twenty-four hour access to a wellstocked library for residents and CAARI members, and a computer network for internet access, scanning and word processing. |
![]() Founded in 1999, the Center for Khmer Studies is an international not-for-profit institution dedicated to the study, teaching and research of Khmer civilization and the cultures of the Mekong. Linked to institutions and individual scholars worldwide, CKS seeks to promote scholarly interest in the region and to bring Khmer scholars into contact with their U.S. and international counterparts. Headquartered in a living Buddhist monastery, Wat Damnak in Siem Reap, near the historic park of Angkor, CKS provides a recognizable, common point of exchange, as well as an in-country logistical resource for scholarly undertakings. We think of ourselves as a bridge and a crossroads - a real "center". |
![]() The mission of the Center for South Asia Libraries (CSAL) is to promote and enhance the study of South Asia (Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan and India) by operating a network of research-support centers around the region. This network, together with a close-knit federation of unique research institutions, libraries and archives of the subcontinent, makes possible the preservation of and new access to the most significant research resources required by scholars. Spanning all disciplines that enable a broad and deep scholarly understanding of South Asia as a region, the research materials that CSAL makes available are physically housed in archives, libraries and local documentation centers in the subcontinent, and are most often NOT held in libraries outside the region. Bibliographic, full-text, statistical, geographical, and other unique image-based content is also accessible online through CSAL’s digital library initiatives. Thus, the students and scholars who access CSAL's physical or digital holdings are provided with the best possible support for single- or multi-country research on the South Asian region. |
![]() The Mexico-North Research Network was founded in 1998 to promote a more profound understanding of Mexico and its relationship with the United States through increased collaboration among U.S. and Mexican scholars and institutions. Its principal function is to serve as a catalyst in the design and implementation of projects that explore topics based on an exchange of perspectives across national, cultural, institutional, and disciplinary boundaries. |
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