NEWS: CAORC Announces 2022 Multi-Country Research Fellows Arts by Twin Cities Arts Reader - April 26, 2022 The Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) announced today the 2022 award recipients for its Multi-Country Research Fellowship and the Mary Ellen Lane Multi-Country Travel Award. Now in its 29th year, the Multi-Country Research Fellowship supports advanced regional and trans-regional research in the humanities, social sciences, and allied natural sciences for U.S. doctoral candidates and scholars who hold a PhD. For this competition cycle, nine fellowships were awarded for grants of $11,500 each. The program is funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The 2022 Mary Ellen Lane Multi-Country Travel Award has been granted to Brian Valente-Quinn of the University of Colorado, Boulder toward his project, The De-Radicalizing Stage: Theater Makers Respond to Extremism in France and West Africa. This award is granted to the highest-ranking Multi-Country Research fellow and provides an additional $1,000 towards travel expenses. The award is named after CAORC’s founding director, Mary Ellen Lane, who led CAORC for 28 years. Recipients Bayan Abubakr (Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, Yale University) The Forty Days’ Road and the World Around It: Race, Slavery, and Society in Ottoman-Egyptian Sudan, 1840-1924 Overseas Research Center Affiliation(s): ARCE (Egypt), ARIT (Turkey) Katherine Harrington (Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Emory University) Home Economics: Crafting Households and Communities in Ancient Greece Overseas Research Center Affiliation(s): AAR (Italy), ARIT (Turkey), ASCSA (Greece), CAARI (Cyprus) Hannah Hyden (Doctoral Candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University) Subjects of Wonder: Court Society and the Persian ‘Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt (1300-1632) Overseas Research Center Affiliation(s): AIIS (India), ARIT (Turkey) Nancy Ko (Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University) Nostalgic Governance: Coexistence, Capitalism, and the Moral Imagination of Jewish History-Writing in the Global “Orient,” 1878-1967 Overseas Research Center Affiliation(s): ARCE (Egypt), ARIT (Turkey), PARC (Palestine) Ryan Low (Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University) Notarial Information and Village Life in the Medieval Mediterranean Overseas Research Center Affiliation(s): AAR (Italy) Ariela Marcus-Sells (Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Department of Religious Studies, Elon University) The War of Nasir al-Din: Reform and Revolution in West Africa Overseas Research Center Affiliation(s): TALIM (Morocco), WARC (Senegal) Abigail Schoenfeld (Doctoral Candidate, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University) Social Sciences, Knowledge Production, and Nation -Building in Turkey and Soviet Azerbaijan, 1922- 1940 Overseas Research Center Affiliation(s): ARISC (Azerbaijan), ARIT (Turkey) Wallace Teska (Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, Stanford University) Paths to Justice: Law, Religion, and Social Change in French West Africa, 1890-1990 Overseas Research Center Affiliation(s): AAR (Italy), WARC (Senegal) Brian Valente-Quinn (Assistant Professor, Department of French and Italian, University of Colorado Boulder) The De-Radicalizing Stage: Theater Makers Respond to Extremism in France and West Africa Overseas Research Center Affiliation(s): WARC (Senegal) About Latest Posts Twin Cities Arts ReaderThe Twin Cities Arts Reader is an arts and lifestyles magazine whose coverage examines arts and selected activities in the state of Minnesota and across the country. It provides in-depth, critical arts coverage and reaches more than 600,000 readers per year. Latest posts by Twin Cities Arts Reader (see all) FRINGE FILE #8: The Golden Lanyard Awards - August 13, 2024 FRINGE FILE #7: Reviews, Pt. 4 - August 11, 2024 FRINGE FILE #6: Reviews, Pt. 3 - August 10, 2024 Share on Facebook Share Share on TwitterTweet