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The ACOR Associated Fellowships are awards given by organizations that are administratively independent from ACOR. Typically these fellowships enable the recipients to reside at ACOR to take advantage of the research facilities, however ACOR and the ACOR Fellowship Committee are not involved in the selection process. Currently there are three affiliated fellowships:

Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC)
Multi-Country Research Fellowships:

The program is open to U.S. doctoral candidates and scholars who have already earned their Ph.D. in fields in the humanities, social sciences, or allied natural sciences and wish to conduct research of regional or trans-regional significance. Fellowships require scholars to conduct research in more than one country, at least one of which hosts a participating American overseas research center. It is anticipated that approximately ten fellowships of up to $9,000 each will be awarded.

Applications will be available annually in early October.
For more information and to download the application form:

Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC)
http://www.caorc.org/programs/
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Getty Research Exchange Fellowship Program
for the Mediterranean Basin and Middle East:

Travel and living expense stipend of up to $4,000 for no less than one month. Open to scholars who are Jordanian citizens and who have already obtained a Ph.D. or have professional experience in the study or preservation of cultural heritage and who wish to undertake a specific research project at an overseas research centers in another country.

Funded by the Getty Foundation, the fellowships require scholars to affiliate with one of the following overseas research centers: American Academy in Rome; American Center of Oriental Research (Amman); American Institute for Maghrib Studies (Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria); American Institute for Yemeni Studies (Sana’a); American Research Center in Egypt (Cairo); American Research Institute in Turkey (Istanbul and Ankara); American School of Classical Studies at Athens; and the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute (Nicosia). Affiliation fees are to be paid out of the stipend by the recipient.

Applications will be available in early October. Scholars who are Jordanian citizens and who wish to apply for the Getty Fellowship should contact ACOR directly for an application.

Critical Language Scholarship Program
for Intensive Summer Language Institutes:

ACOR hosts an eight week intensive Arabic language program every summer since 2006. The program is organized through CAORC and is funded by the US State Department. The Critical Languages Scholarship Program is part of a U.S. government interagency effort to expand dramatically the number of Americans studying and mastering critical need foreign languages. Student participants are expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship period, and later apply their critical language skills in their future professional careers.

If you are interested in applying to the CLS Program to study Advanced Beginning, Intermediate, or Advanced Arabic in Amman, Jordan, see https://clscholarship.org/home.php.