The Council for American Overseas Research Centers has announced the 2024 awards for faculty to participate in an Overseas Faculty...

CAORC is pleased to announce the 2024 recipients for the Multi-Country Research Fellowship & the Mary Ellen Lane Multi-Country Travel Award

WARC Immersive Career Development Fellowship (WICD) The West African Research Association (WARA) is a non-profit membership organization...

CAORC has announced the 2024 awards for faculty to participate in an Overseas Faculty Development Seminar in Senegal.

Professor Latif Tarik reflects on how his OFDS experience in Senegal informed his practice of Sufi philosophy.

In this essay, CAORC-WARC Faculty Development Seminar alumnus, Nellie Dinah Pharr-Maletta, reflects on her experience in Senegal.

This faculty development seminar to Senegal is now accepting applications with a deadline of August 31, 2022.

Coming soon! The call for applications for the Faculty Development Seminars to Mexico and Senegal will launch on July 12, 2022.

CAORC-NEH Senior Research Fellowship alumna, Karen Barton, discusses how the fellowship opened up numerous doors for her.

CAORC is accepting applications for faculty development seminars with a deadline of August 30, 2021.

Senegal seminar participant Verny Varela highlights the musical connections between West Africa and Colombia, where he was born and raised.

Senegal participant Rebecca Jacobs-Pollez explains how the legendary baobab tree helped her better understand the country and its people.

Faculty seminar participant Kimberly Monroe reflects on the deep musical and cultural traditions that live on in Senegal's hip-hop artists.

Faculty seminar participant Hoa Nguyen discusses how Senegal’s cultural and geographic diversity may be the key to its future prosperity.

Anita Gaul, participant in the Senegal faculty seminar, conveys how the experience transformed her understanding of West Africa.

CAORC is pleased to announce the 2019 award recipients for the Multi-Country Research Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities...

Sippo Island, Toubakouta, Senegal In this essay, Stephanie Lovett, a 2019 participant in CAORC’s faculty development seminar to Senegal,...

The docks of Liverpool, where England defined its role in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade with the Americas and West Africa. In this...

En route to plant mangrove seeds with Haidar in Casamance (Photo: Barton) In this essay, CAORC-NEH Senior Research Fellow Karen Barton...

CAORC’s Multi-Country Research Fellowship, which supports advanced regional and trans-regional research in the humanities, social...