FYs 2016-2019 Project Abstracts and Grantees under the ...



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American Overseas Research Centers (AORC) Program

CFDA 84.274A

Grantee List and Project Abstracts

Fiscal Years 2016-2019

American Overseas Research Centers Abroad, FY 2016-2019

List of Grantee Institutions and Award Amounts

|Name of Center |Overseas Location |FY 2016 Funding |Page Number |

|American Center for Mongolian Studies (ACMS) |Ulaanbaatar |$65,000 |3 |

|American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) |Amman |$65,000 |4 |

|American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS) |Jakarta and Yogykarta |$65,000 |5 |

|American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) |Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia |$65,000 |6 |

|American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies (AISLS) |Colombo |$65,000 |7 |

|American Institute of Afghanistan Studies |Kabul |$65,000 |8 |

|American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS) |Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi |$65,000 |9 |

|American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) |Ankara and Istanbul |$65,000 |11 |

|Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) |Phnom Penh |$65,000 |12 |

|Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) |Ramallah |$65,000 |13 |

American Center for Mongolian Studies



Through the AORC program the American Center for Mongolian Studies (ACMS) plans to focus on three initiatives that meet critical needs in the field of Inner Asian Studies: 1) enhance distance learning facilities and programs; 2) expand library and research resources and training; and 3) broaden education outreach and information creation and dissemination. Achieving these goals will support researchers working on topics related to Inner Asian Studies, expand knowledge of the region, and connect research in Mongolia to critical questions in the United States. The initiatives are designed to meet the AORC Program Invitational Priorities, and are feasible and sustainable as they build on existing ACMS capacity and programs. The first highlighted goal is to enhance distance learning facilities and programs.

Through the AORC grant, the ACMS seeks funding for the development of a distance education classroom in Ulaanbaatar and support for a staff member who will help facilitate distance education and online resources. The ACMS is engaged in a variety of education and training programs that include audiences and presenters in both Mongolia and the United States, however it does not have access to a dedicated distance education classroom that could be used for activities such as workshops delivered by U.S. museum experts to Mongolian colleagues, language classes for American students led by instructors in Mongolia, research collaboration meetings between Mongolian and American scholars or presentations by American or Mongolian experts to students in the United States. A distance classroom supported by a knowledgeable staff person and appropriate software resources will greatly enhance ACMS capabilities in this area.

Second, the ACMS seeks to expand its leadership role in the development of accessible library and research resources related to Mongolian Studies. The ACMS seeks to hire a professional librarian in Mongolia who can develop and lead training and cooperation efforts with local Mongolian libraries, archives and scholars, and assist in the development of partnerships with U.S. libraries and institutions. The ACMS is the primary international organization carrying out librarian training in Mongolia, and has been leading efforts to develop information databases such as library and museum collection catalogues, archeology field reports, and digitized collections of rare documents. The ACMS also has the potential to be the primary source of Mongolian books and materials for U.S. research libraries, and a center for the creation of accurate MARC catalogue records for materials published in Mongolia.

Third, the ACMS plans to broaden education outreach and information creation and dissemination efforts. AORC funds will be used to support a portion of the salary of the Overseas Director and the salary of a program staff member in the Ulaanbaatar office. The Overseas Director is the primary point of contact for in-country scholars and groups, supported by a staff member who handles many of the logistical details of events such as the Speaker Series, hosting incoming fellows, and organizing workshops and educational tours. AORC funding will support the continued development and expansion of outreach and education efforts, with a focus on two areas: expansion of online outreach as described in the first initiative; and efforts to expand outreach to less served groups including Community Colleges (CC), Minority Serving Institutions (MSI), scholars and students from non-research intense institutions, and K-12 teachers and students.

American Center for Oriental Research



ACOR is a non-profit 501(c)(3) academic institution based in Amman, Jordan, that is dedicated to promoting education, research, and publication in the humanities and social sciences in the context of Middle Eastern area studies. Founded in 1968, ACOR serves as a liaison between American and international students and scholars and Jordanian academic and governmental institutions.

ACOR was originally founded to serve specifically as a research base for American scholars working in Jordan. The initial objective was to facilitate American participation in the excavation and documentation of Jordan’s rich but then largely unexplored archaeological remains. Although ACOR’s mission has evolved over the decades to support a broad range of research and disciplinary interests in both ancient and modern Jordan and the wider region, the preservation of the country’s cultural heritage remains a primary focus of the center’s operations. Today, ACOR is part of the vanguard seeking to implement sustainable conservation and management practices at Jordan’s major cultural heritage sites, including the Temple of the Winged Lions in Petra, where specialists are working alongside members of the local community to preserve one of the site’s most prominent but threatened monuments. ACOR is now also implementing the Sustainable Cultural Heritage through Engagement of Local Communities Project (SCHEP) which aims to provide locally based economic and employment opportunities through site conservation and presentation projects.

To serve its contemporary mission to “increase knowledge of Jordan, past and present,” ACOR has developed a robust fellowship program that every year allows more than a dozen American students and researchers across this broad range of fields to conduct fieldwork and study in Jordan. Beyond this, ACOR provides research facilities, services, and resources to more than 13,000 international and Jordanian scholars annually. Perhaps the most significant of these resources is the ACOR Library, which houses one of the Middle East’s premier academic collections, with more than 45,000 volumes, journals, and digital resources related to the varied disciplines supported by ACOR’s expanded mission.

The ACOR Library collection also includes a valuable archive of more than 100,000 photographs of the archaeological, cultural, and natural sites of the Middle East, especially Jordan. This photographic archive, however, has until now remained underutilized as a research resource because of staffing limitations and lack of funds.

The proposed four-year project aims to significantly expand the available research collections of the ACOR Library by leveraging digital and web-based technologies to process, digitize, and ultimately make available this valuable visual documentation of the region’s cultural, natural, and material heritage. At a time when the region’s heritage sites are under constant threat from rampant development, violence, looting, and simple indifference, the outcomes of this project will allow postgraduate researchers, scholars, and policy makers across a broad range of heritage-related fields to have ready access to valuable primary documentation of threatened sites and also capture more gradual site transformations through time. The available images will likewise provide the researcher with unique perspectives on what individual photographers aimed to capture, whether details of ancient ruins, landscape elements, local flora and fauna, or the region’s human geography.

American Institute for Indonesian Studies



The American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS), operating in Indonesia since 2012, has filled an urgent research need in a country that is politically, economically, religiously, and strategically important to the United States. Indonesia is the world’s fourth largest country by population and the fifth largest by area. It is the world’s largest Muslim country and its third largest democracy, controlling vast mineral reserves and containing a substantial proportion of the world’s humid tropical forest. In addition, Indonesia sits on top of some of the world’s most vital sea lanes. The country came into greater prominence in the early years of President Obama’s administration with the President’s overtures to Jakarta and the signing in November 2010 of the U.S.-Indonesia Comprehensive Partnership, a multi-faceted agreement that lays out many points of bilateral collaboration for the present and future. AIFIS’s research center in Jakarta assists in the realization of American goals of maintaining geopolitical stability and economic growth in a strategically important region.

AIFIS was established in 2011 with support from several American and Indonesian foundations and is directed by a Board made up of member institute representatives from 25 prominent American research universities. The AIFIS research centers in Jakarta and Yogyakarta annually host a series of presentations and seminars and assist American scholars in conducting research in Indonesia.

The present proposal is designed to solidify our Indonesian centers’ programming and staffing and to expand our program activities with community college faculty in the United States. Support for AIFIS’s research centers will provide a strategic investment in a country that is critically important to the United States.

American Institute of Maghrib Studies



The American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) is an American Overseas Research Center founded in 1984 to promote the study of North Africa – the Maghrib. Comprised of 21 U.S. institutional members and close to 300 individual members, AIMS provides services to 3,800 scholars annually through its programs, fellowships, and grants. AIMS works to facilitate research in North Africa, encourage the free exchange of information between American and North African scholars, and promote the systematic study of North Africa among scholars, specialists, students and others concerned with the Maghrib. AIMS is a member of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC).

As a scholarly society, AIMS offers multiple services to strengthen U.S. postgraduate research on the Maghrib through its three Overseas Research Centers (ORCs) in Algeria (CEMA, Centre d’Études Maghrébines en Algérie, founded in 2007), Morocco (TALIM, Tangier American Legation and Institute for Moroccan Studies, associated with AIMS in 1989), and Tunisia (CEMAT, the Centre d’Études Maghrébines à Tunis, founded in 1985). AIMS is served by a U.S. office headquartered at the University of Arizona.

In the United States, AIMS serves as the professional association of scholars interested in the region. AIMS sponsors the Journal of North African Studies, provides grants for American and North African scholars interested in conducting research in the Maghrib, and hosts an annual conference and dissertation workshop. Abroad, AIMS organizes programs in collaboration with scholars and institutions throughout North Africa.

AIMS requests Title VI funding for three specific purposes in order to continue and increase our capacity over the next four years: The first is to partially cover salaries and fringe benefits for the ORC staff that implements ongoing AIMS programs and administration in the Maghrib. The second is to address an identified scholarly gap by developing a trans-Maghrib thematic agenda, which brings together U.S. and Maghribi scholars researching six priority issues of national importance, in a cross-disciplinary manner:

1. Islam, politics, and public life;

2. Social and political violence and radicalization;

3. Cultural heritage and preservation;

4. Trans-regional economic, political, and social networks;

5. Religious and linguistic minorities; and

6. Migration and urbanization.

The third is to fund the development of a technologically responsive interface – the AIMS e-University, a digital depository and clearinghouse for seminal lectures on the Maghrib, sponsored and organized by AIMS. The AIMS e-University will allow U.S. students and scholars to listen to podcasts, watch videos, or participate in ORC activities via live video streaming, projecting AIMS colloquia, lectures, and symposia into the virtual classroom, and providing expanded opportunities for the dissemination of Maghrib studies in the U.S. and elsewhere.

American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies



The overall purpose of the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies (AISLS) is to develop and support U.S. research and expertise on Sri Lanka. We seek operating and program support from the U.S. Department of Education for our Overseas Research Center in Colombo, Sri Lanka’s main city and cultural, economic and educational center.

This project has five main components. First, it provides operating support for the Center, which enables our staff to help U.S. researchers with matters such as security, visas, housing, research permits, access to specialized libraries and archives, and making contacts with Sri Lankan scholars, government officials, and members of civil society.

These services are especially important because many graduate students and scholars using the center do not have previous experience working in the country. Second, the project provides for the continuation of our successful workshop program, which bolsters the expertise of U.S. educators and builds ties between them and their Sri Lankan counterparts. Workshops will cover a wide variety of topics in the humanities, social sciences and related fields, but we also plan to shape the program to support other AISLS goals, such as addressing topical and disciplinary weaknesses in US expertise, and promoting comparative research and work that is accessible to non-specialists. Third, the project provides support for the Center library, which has many holdings not available elsewhere in Sri Lanka and some that are not available in the United States. Fourth, the project provides support for our language instruction program in Sinhala and Tamil, both of which have been designated as priority languages by the Secretary of Education.

Finally, the project will strengthen AISLS efforts to use technology to make research materials and other information on Sri Lanka available on open access online. AISLS will begin a new program to publish teaching modules for community college teachers, and it will expand its program to publish bibliographical materials and other research resources. AISLS will also continue to respond to requests from U.S. students and scholars to supply individual publications and specialized bibliographical information.

The project has been designed to complement AISLS activities that are carried out with other federal and private funds. For instance, the support requested from the Department of Education for the Colombo Center staff and facilities is essential to the success of our research fellowship and dissertation planning grant programs, which are supported by other federal funds. AISLS also maximizes the impact of its programs by reaching out to faculty at minority serving institutions and by working closely with its member institutions and other organizations that share its goals.

AISLS programs serve around 115 individual members, as well as students and faculty affiliated with the 31 colleges and universities that have institutional or consortium membership. Annual individual membership rates are set at a very affordable level ($40 for those employed full time; $15 for students, community college teachers, retirees, adjuncts and the unemployed), thus ensuring wide access.

Since its incorporation in 1996 and the establishment of its Colombo Center in 2000, AISLS has made important and critical contributions to strengthening US scholarship on Sri Lanka. Support from the U.S. Department of Education is essential for AISLS efforts deepen and broaden U.S. expertise in ways that that will improve the nation’s capacity to address international issues.

American Institute of Afghanistan Studies



The American Institute of Afghanistan Studies (AIAS) was established in 2003 with the aim of promoting systematic study of the culture, society, land, languages, health, peoples and history of Afghanistan. It currently represents 25 American institutions, each of which has one representative on its board of directors. Its American headquarters is at Boston University and it runs a research center in Kabul, Afghanistan that is now in its thirteenth year of continuous operation.

One of the institute’s primary objectives is increasing the size of the community of scholars in the United States who have knowledge and understanding of Afghanistan. It also assists in the rebuilding of academic institutions and the resumption of advanced study of Afghanistan by Afghan scholars. To achieve this end, AIAS facilitates the return of senior international scholars to Afghanistan to resume their research, assists in training a new generation of PhD level scholars who have direct experience in Afghanistan as well as strong language skills, and works to raise the overall level of research and scholarship by Afghan institutions.

To expand upon the Institute’s current programming and better equip the Institute to meet its mission, AIAS seeks funding for the following programs:

1. Individualized language training for scholars in Dari (Afghan Persian) and Pashto, the two official languages of Afghanistan.

2. An Afghanistan studies translation program, which will offer grants to authors to adapt their publications in Dari or Pashto into English, or English-language publications into Dari and Pashto.

3. Subvention to cover fees for the newly established journal, Afghanistan: the journal of the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies.

4. An annual, live-streamed academic lecture series on Afghanistan.

5. The Kabul-based lecture series, Kabul Talks, which serves as a platform to apply the findings of Afghanistan-related research into practice.

The importance of bringing peace, stability and economic growth to Afghanistan is a high priority of the United States and the international community, and will remain so with the suspension of the drawdown of ISAF forces from Afghanistan. In this context, the need for expertise on Afghanistan should not be understated, and cannot be resolved without a long-term commitment to rigorous training. The requested funding will provide supplementary support for existing programs, as well as funding to launch initiatives that bridge existing gaps in the field.

These gaps include insufficient language training in the two official languages of Afghanistan; limited publication outlets for Afghanistan scholars; a continuous disconnect between scholars and policymakers; and the need for an expanded network of Afghanistan scholars in the United States and Afghanistan, thereby creating a support system for junior scholars to conduct high quality research.

AIAS already has the administrative and physical infrastructure in place to manage the requested programs. The long-term impact on the field of Afghanistan studies provided by the requested programmatic and infrastructure support will be one of a revitalized community after many years of marginalization. For those who enter applied fields, the outcome will be long-term service to government, journalism, private corporations and NGOs. Together, these networks create an impressive opportunity to build interpersonal relationships that make Afghanistan studies possible, and contribute to the sustained development and rebuilding of the country.

American Institute of Pakistan Studies



The American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS) is a member of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC). Its mission is to encourage and support research on issues relevant to Pakistan to promote scholarly exchange between the United States and Pakistan. The Institute’s activities during the next four years (2016-2020) will include continued development of its Islamabad and Lahore Centers and expansion of the Karachi Center to support U.S. postgraduate research fellows and foster academic exchange and area studies in Pakistan. AIPS will also organize lectures and conferences in Pakistan and the United States and assist Pakistani scholars who will be traveling to the United States as part of the Pakistan Lecture Series.

In addition, AIPS will:

1. Provide outreach to minority-serving institutions (MSIs) and historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the United States by continuing to support Pakistan-specific courses to be taught in these institutions. In the last four years, AIPS has collaborated with HBCU/MSIs such as Florida International University, North Carolina Central University, and Huston Tillotson University in Austin, Texas, (in collaboration with the University of Texas’s South Asia Institute) to teach courses on South Asia (SA);

2. In this grant cycle, AIPS will sponsor Pakistan Studies related workshops in Pakistan and in the United States. Through this sponsorship, AIPS will continue a program that started in 2012 and funds faculty members from HBCU/MSIs with grants to travel to Pakistan to attend such workshops. It will also encourage the inclusion of faculty members from community colleges to attend AIPS supported workshops at U.S. colleges and universities;

3. AIPS will continue to work with the South Asia Summer Language Institute to develop standards for Urdu language teaching, train Urdu (a national critical language) instructors from Pakistan on pedagogical methods for teaching Urdu as a second language;

4. AIPS will maintain its partnership with University of California Berkeley on the Berkeley Urdu Language Program In Pakistan, funded by the PAS, U.S. Embassy in Islamabad. This program will send up to ten US graduate students each fall to the Lahore University of Management Sciences to develop expertise in Urdu as Second Language;

5. While AIPS collaborates with the regional (South Asia) Library of Congress (LC) Office, it is initiating a new project with U.S.-based South Asia Cooperative Collection Development Workshop group which has members from the Committee on South Asia Libraries and Documentation and the South Asia Cooperative Acquisitions Program, (run by LC) to consider ways in which AIPS’ network of institutions and contacts in Pakistan could procure library materials for collections on Pakistan at U.S. university libraries.

In addition, AIPS will pilot a project to digitize exceptional private archives in Pakistan; and 6) AIPS will continue to support outreach to K-12 audiences, community colleges, HBCU/MSIs, and the general public through its members, some of which have Title VI-supported South Asia NRCs, and university museums. AIPS will offer online resources that AIPS offers for educators, K-12 teachers and librarians to assist in teaching children and young adults about Pakistan. AIPS makes available to the general public, via its Web site, abstracts, reports, and new publications on Pakistan.

AIPS’ presence in Pakistan enhances collaboration between increasing numbers of US visiting scholars with Pakistani institutions. In the forthcoming grant cycle, AIPS will continue to build on its relations with officials at the Embassy in Islamabad, as well as with various Pakistani universities, government institutions, such as the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan (HEC), civil society organizations and cultural institutions.

American Research Institute in Turkey



The American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) is a growing consortium of 50 U.S. institutions of higher learning and a founding member of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC). A 501(c)(3) non-profit organization incorporated in 1964, ARIT aims to support post-graduate research and promote academic exchanges and collaborations related to Turkey in the full range of fields of the humanities and social sciences, and archaeology. To meet these purposes, ARIT administers programs of fellowships for advanced research and Turkish language study, maintains two research centers in Turkey, in Istanbul and Ankara, and provides outreach programs to engage a diverse range of students, scholars, and the public at large with the country and the resources of the research centers.

More than 600 ARIT research fellows, funded through U.S. sources, expand our understanding of Turkish history, culture, society and the country’s role in the region, including the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Europe. The ARIT advanced language program has helped develop more than 600 proficient speakers of Turkish language, supporting academic area studies, as well as U.S. diplomacy, security, and business. In addition to ARIT-sponsored research and language fellows, the centers serve the needs of thousands of visiting U.S., Turkish, and other scholars and students each year. They are hubs for promoting collegial interactions and developing scholarly exchanges and collaborations.

In Turkey, the ARIT centers each provide a focused research library, facilities for meetings and conferences, and support staffing. ARIT centers are open to the public during business hours. ARIT libraries are building open access to digitized research resources on-line, including full-text journals, maps, and archives. An American director in each location facilitates research, and develops conferences and exchange activities. The directors assist individual U.S. scholars with both logistical and research needs – providing support for travel, visas, and permits, as well as access to research resources and connections with local colleagues and institutions. They develop conferences and facilitate outside overseas programs. The U.S. office, located in the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, provides administrative support for program operations. In all three locations, ARIT offers outreach programs to diverse communities.

The proposed project will support language and area studies centers and programs in the United States in attaining their primary objectives, that is, to prepare American scholars and experts to develop academic and professional careers related to Turkey and the region, and forge ties between the American and Turkish academic communities.

ARIT respectfully requests support under an AORC grant to:

1. Maintain and expand access to ARIT’s research support facilities and services in Turkey

2. Maintain and expand outreach programs to engage CCs and MSIs in the U.S. with ARIT opportunities and programs, through lectures series, electronic content, and targeted outreach. (Invitational priority 1)

3. Support the development of open-access digital research resources and disseminate lectures and conference proceedings via the internet (Invitational priority 2)

4. Develop conferences in Turkey and public programming in the U.S. on topics of current concern including 1) protection of natural and cultural heritage and its role in building pluralism and civil society and 2) minority and migration studies related to Turkey and the impact of migration on the wider region.

Center for Khmer Studies



Founded in 2000, the Center for Khmer Studies (CKS) facilitates undergraduate and postgraduate research, teaching, scholarly exchanges and area studies on Cambodia and mainland Southeast Asia. A member institution of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) since 2004, the Center works with a consortium of 45 U.S. universities, colleges, community colleges and schools to nurture interest in and further American expertise in the field of Cambodian and Southeast Asian Studies. With its headquarters in Siem Reap and office in Phnom Penh, CKS provides financial and logistical support to American scholars while fostering new communities of scholars from Cambodia and the region. Our principal objective is to cultivate U.S. experts on Cambodia and the broader mainland Southeast Asian region by means of research fellowships, language training, conferences, workshops, publications and access to CKS' specialized library. CKS also acts as a resource center for our local community providing library services, conferences, lectures and film series as well as providing access to our conference hall in Siem Reap for the U.S. Embassy, non-government organizations (NGOs), school, universities and artists. The main goals of this project are to:

1. Provide the most expansive set of resources available to strengthen and expand support for U.S. scholars and scholarship on Cambodia and the region;

2. Expand and deepen our network of partnerships with American universities, 4-year liberal arts colleges (LACs), and community colleges;

3. Strengthen our existing relationships with our Cambodian and regional counterparts;

4. Increase CKS exposure in the U.S., Cambodia, and in the region through an extensive menu of web and social media platforms;

5. Enhance CKS's focus to include more of the social sciences, humanities, and hard sciences to ensure that CKS remains a relevant institutional partner in an increasingly competitive ASEAN context.

In fulfilling these objectives over the next four years, CKS expects to better serve the needs of its U.S partners by remaining at the forefront of the development of Southeast Asian area studies.

Palestinian American Research Center



The Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with a U.S. office located in Washington, D.C., and an overseas research center located in Ramallah, Palestine. Prior to PARC’s founding, American, Palestinian and foreign scholars lacked the institutional infrastructure that provides fellowship funding, logistical support, access to local resources, and a network of academic contacts for scholars working on Palestine. PARC was established in 1998 to address these gaps. PARC is a consortium of 27 institutions of higher education, which includes two consortia, one consortium of two institutions of higher education, and one consortium of six institutions, making for a total of 33 institutions of higher education that support PARC. PARC is a member of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers.

For decades the intractable struggle between Israelis and Palestinians has been a source of instability in the region and a long-standing focus of U.S. foreign policy. This project will serve U.S. national interests, therefore, by improving and expanding the community of U.S. scholars knowledgeable about this conflict and the broad range of Palestinian issues in which it is embedded, and by widely disseminating knowledge on Palestine.

PARC’s primary activities and programs are focused on:

• Increasing the range, quantity, and quality of scholarship about Palestinian affairs by providing research fellowships and a field research base for postgraduate scholars.

• Improving the quality of scholarship by increasing access to research opportunities.

• Strengthening linkages among Palestinian, American, and foreign scholars and educational, cultural, and research institutions.

• Encouraging new generations of scholars to develop an interest in and expertise on Palestine through PARC research fellowships.

• Developing library resources to facilitate research as well as provide a clearinghouse on current research topics, and making these resources freely available through the Internet.

• Improving cross-cultural understanding and appreciation of Palestinian culture and society by organizing lectures, exchanges, film tours, art exhibits, and other events.

PARC’s mission is to improve scholarship about Palestinian affairs, expand the pool of experts knowledgeable about the Palestinians, and strengthen linkages among Palestinian, American, and foreign research institutions and scholars. The activities that PARC proposes for the AORC project over the next four years link directly to that mission and include:

1. Promoting postgraduate research via annual research fellowship awards for U.S. scholars to research in Palestine,

2. Developing a pool of international experts via our Faculty and Media Development Seminars, with special attention to an outreach campaign to community colleges and Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) to engage their faculty members in these PARC programs,

3. Operating our overseas office in Ramallah, Palestine, to serve visiting U.S. scholars and researchers by providing a network of support services, and

4. Creating a new PARC website to provide open access to PARC’S research and teaching materials, and developing new resources to place on the new Web site.

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