CAORC Announces Awards for the 2025 Overseas Faculty Development Seminar in Senegal
The Council for American Overseas Research Centers has announced the 2024 awards for faculty to participate in an Overseas Faculty...
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May 16
CAORC Announces the 2024 Multi-Country Research Fellows
CAORC is pleased to announce the 2024 recipients for the Multi-Country Research Fellowship & the Mary Ellen Lane Multi-Country Travel Award
Mar 8
New Grant Opportunity for Undergrad and Master's Students from the West African Research Association
WARC Immersive Career Development Fellowship (WICD) The West African Research Association (WARA) is a non-profit membership organization...
Dec 8, 2023
CAORC announces awards for the 2024 Overseas Faculty Development Seminar in Senegal
CAORC has announced the 2024 awards for faculty to participate in an Overseas Faculty Development Seminar in Senegal.
Aug 7, 2023
American Black Sufi—My Sojourn in the African Diaspora
Professor Latif Tarik reflects on how his OFDS experience in Senegal informed his practice of Sufi philosophy.
May 22, 2023
This Is Senegal, This is My Boat, This Is Home
In this essay, CAORC-WARC Faculty Development Seminar alumnus, Nellie Dinah Pharr-Maletta, reflects on her experience in Senegal.
Jul 12, 2022
CAORC-WARC Faculty Development Seminar to Senegal Accepting Applications
This faculty development seminar to Senegal is now accepting applications with a deadline of August 31, 2022.
Jun 10, 2022
Update: Faculty Development Seminars Coming Soon!
Coming soon! The call for applications for the Faculty Development Seminars to Mexico and Senegal will launch on July 12, 2022.
Nov 1, 2021
A Geographer’s Field Notes: Exploring Connections Between Mexico and Senegal
CAORC-NEH Senior Research Fellowship alumna, Karen Barton, discusses how the fellowship opened up numerous doors for her.
Feb 1, 2021
CAORC Faculty Development Seminars
CAORC is accepting applications for faculty development seminars with a deadline of August 30, 2021.
Aug 7, 2020
Finding the Musical Connections between West Africa and Latin America
Senegal seminar participant Verny Varela highlights the musical connections between West Africa and Colombia, where he was born and raised.
Jul 7, 2020
Broad as a Baobab Trunk: Lessons from Senegal
Senegal participant Rebecca Jacobs-Pollez explains how the legendary baobab tree helped her better understand the country and its people.
May 19, 2020
Trans-Atlantic Memories: Senegal’s Hip-Hop Griots and the Black Radical Tradition
Faculty seminar participant Kimberly Monroe reflects on the deep musical and cultural traditions that live on in Senegal's hip-hop artists.
May 1, 2020
Senegal’s Diversity Is Its Way of Life—and Its Future
Faculty seminar participant Hoa Nguyen discusses how Senegal’s cultural and geographic diversity may be the key to its future prosperity.
Apr 6, 2020
Awakening to Africa's Brilliance
Anita Gaul, participant in the Senegal faculty seminar, conveys how the experience transformed her understanding of West Africa.
May 30, 2019
CAORC Announces 2019 Fellowship Recipients
CAORC is pleased to announce the 2019 award recipients for the Multi-Country Research Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities...
Mar 28, 2019
Teaching through Being: Faculty Development and Experiential Learning in Senegal
Sippo Island, Toubakouta, Senegal In this essay, Stephanie Lovett, a 2019 participant in CAORC’s faculty development seminar to Senegal,...
Dec 4, 2018
The World We Don’t Know—Reflections on the Importance of Global Education
The docks of Liverpool, where England defined its role in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade with the Americas and West Africa. In this...
Nov 8, 2018
A Geographer’s Field Notes: The CAORC-NEH Senior Fellow Experience in Senegal
En route to plant mangrove seeds with Haidar in Casamance (Photo: Barton) In this essay, CAORC-NEH Senior Research Fellow Karen Barton...
Jul 26, 2018
Celebrating 25 Years of CAORC's Multi-Country Fellowship
CAORC’s Multi-Country Research Fellowship, which supports advanced regional and trans-regional research in the humanities, social...
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