NEH Post-Doctoral and Professional Fellowships at the American Research Center in Egypt, Inc.

Recipient: Scott, Gerry Dee (Cairo, Egypt) in affiliation with American Research Center in Egypt (Atlanta, GA 30306 USA)

Goal: The equivalent of two full-year humanities fellowships a year, for each of two years.

Description: The American Research Center in Egypt requests an NEH grant of $258,000 over a four year peiod to support an average of three long-term humanities fellowships for each of three years in a variety of disciplines including history, Islamic studies, literature, art history, Egyptology, political science, and the humanistic social sciences. ARCE also proposes to continue to offer two short-term multiple-year fellowships for museum curators in Islamic art; Coptic art; and Egyptian, pre-dynastic and pre-historic materials. Thse funds will provide scholars with living expenses and round-trip air transportation. ARCE also requests $6,000 for three years to publicize these opportunities and to support the selection of grantees.

Grant: 174609 / RA-50028-05,   Category: Near Eastern History,   Division: Research Programs,   Program: Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions,   Year Awarded: 2005