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The Melikian Center |
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History Department faculty engage in funded external research in collaboration with the ASU Melikian Center, a university center founded in 1984 for comprehensive training, research, and outreach relating to Eastern Europe and Eurasia. With external support, the Melikian Center also conducts its own summer language institute, the Critical Languages Institute, for intensive instruction in less commonly taught languages of the region. The Melikian Center offices are located immediately adjacent to the History Department on the fourth floor of Coor Hall, ASU Tempe Campus. Currently funded projects include the following: Critical Languages Institute Grants. The CLI receives annual instructional funding from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). ACLS grants for the 2006 CLI provided instructional support for Albanian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS), Macedonian, and Polish. SSRC grants for the 2006 CLI provided support of Armenian and Tatar instruction, as well as student fellowships. Benefiting from a well-structured program of faculty advisement, CLI students, including many undergraduates and graduates in history, are routinely among the most competitive nationally in annual Fulbright and National Security Education Program (NSEP) fellowship competitions—fifty such fellowships have gone to ASU CLI graduates over the past decade. U.S. Department of State Educational Partnerships. The Melikian Center conducts externally funded educational partnership projects with colleagues at sister institutions of higher learning in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. These projects build upon preexisting study abroad linkages that the Melikian Center maintains with ten strategic partner institutions in the region. Two projects are currently being funded by the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs: 1) The ASU-YSU educational partnership, a three-year linkage project entitled, "Refashioning the Social Sciences and Practitioner Training in Public Administration: International Collaboration Between Arizona State University (USA) and Yerevan State University (Armenia)"; and 2) The ASU-UnSa educational partnership, a three-year partnership with the University of Sarajevo for collaboration in the field of religious studies. Previously funded projects include partnerships with the University of Pristina (Kosovo) and with the University of Ss. Kiril and Metodij (Skopje, Macedonia). U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Public Policy Research Partnership. Melikian Center faculty affiliates are also conducting with three-year USAID funding a public policy research partnership with the Moscow State University Faculty of Public Administration in the field of labor migration and workforce development. That project is incubating at Moscow State University a new public policy research center, entitled the Center for Strategic Innovations (Tsentr strategicheskikh innovatsii)
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Link to the Melikian Center website
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Melikian Center |
