Partially Funded Scholarships and Fellowships for Jordanians from the Accor Foundation

ACOR offers a number of fellowships and scholarships specifically for Jordanian Citizens. This leading scholarship program is the Jordanian Graduate Student Scholarship, which supports four graduate students annually.

• For Jordanian Graduate Student Scholarship:

Four awards of $3,000 each to assist Jordanian graduate students with the annual costs of their academic programs during the period May 1 of the award year through May 31 of the following year. 

• Frederick-Wenger Memorial Fellowship:

Two awards of $1,500 to assist two Jordanian students with the cost of their education. 

• For the Russell and the Sauer Fellowships:

These two fellowships rotate and each year one supports an enrolled Jordanian graduate student. For the upcoming 2021–2022 cycle, 

James A. Sauer Fellowship: The Sauer trust rotates on a two-year cycle.

Year 1:  $1,250 award without residency at ACOR, or $400 award plus one month of residency at ACOR for a student of any nationality except Jordanian.

Year 2: Education assistance for a Jordanian student enrolled in archaeology or cultural heritage degree program in any country. $1,250 award.

Kenneth W. Russell Fellowship: The Russell trust rotates on a two-year cycle.

Year 1:  Education assistance for a Jordanian student enrolled in archaeology or cultural heritage degree program in any country. $1,800 award.

Year 2: Student travel (any nationality except Jordanian) for field work or research in Jordan. One award of $1,800 to support a graduate student participating in an ACOR-approved archaeological research project.

• For Jordanian Travel Scholarship for ASOR Annual Meeting:

Two travel scholarships to assist Jordanians participating and delivering a paper at the ASOR Annual meeting in mid-November in the United States: one awarding $3,500 for in-person attendance, and one awarding ASOR membership and conference registration for participation in the virtual conference. Academic papers should be submitted through the ASOR’s website (www.asor.org/am) by March 15, 2022.

• For Jordanian Graduate Student Scholarship:

Candidates must be Jordanian citizens and enrolled in either a Master’s or Doctoral program in a Jordanian university at the time of their application. Eligibility is limited to students in programs related to Jordan’s cultural heritage (for example archaeology, anthropology, linguistics/epigraphy, history, conservation, museum studies, and cultural resource management-related issues). Awardees who demonstrate excellent progress in their programs will be eligible to apply for consecutive years.

• Frederick-Wenger Memorial Fellowship:

Eligibility is not limited to a specific field of study, but preference will be given to studies related to Jordan’s cultural heritage. Candidates must be Jordanian citizens and currently enrolled as undergraduate or graduate students in a Jordanian university.

• For the Russell and the Sauer Fellowships:

Russell Fellowship is open only to students of non-Jordanian nationality and the Sauer Fellowship is open only to students of Jordanian nationality.

About ACOR:

The American Center of Research (formerly the American Center of Oriental Research) was established in 1968 to serve as a hub in Jordan for scholars of the region. Its history has a particular emphasis on archaeology but includes robust support for historians, ethnographers, sociologists, political scientists, biologists, and various other scholars of literature, language, and the arts.

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