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The American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) is a non-profit educational institution dedicated to promoting American and Turkish research and exchange related to Turkey in all fields of the humanities and social sciences. ARIT provides support for these scholarly endeavors through maintaining research centers in Istanbul and Ankara and administering a program of fellowships to support research in Turkey at the doctoral and post-doctoral levels. 

The range of research encompassed by ARIT reflects the cultural richness of Turkey itself. From the Old Stone Age to the present, Turkey presents numerous opportunities for research in archaeology, architectural and art history, historical, textual, and archival studies, linguistics, literature, musicology, religion, anthropology, political science, and sociology. See the listing of recent ARIT American Fellows for a sample of the broad range of projects supported by ARIT programs. A similar program supports Turkish scholars who wish to carry on research in the humanities and social sciences in Turkey. The Hanfmann and Mellink fellowships provide opportunities for Turkish scholars to carry out research abroad. Since 1982, ARIT has administered a program of intensive advanced Turkish language study in cooperation with Bogaziçi University, now complemented by the Department of State's Critical Language Institutes.  Finally, ARIT Mellon Fellows have joined the regular ARIT fellows in Turkey since 1994.

In 1964, a group of scholars representing American and Canadian universities established the American Research Institute in Turkey. The Institute has now celebrated forty years of facilitating productive scholarship, having funded more than 605 research projects and 414 Turkish research projects in Turkey. In addition, the Institute has supported 257 students of Turkish language in Istanbul.   ARIT institutional membership includes thirty-six universities and institutions as full or consortial members. In the U.S., ARIT sponsors lectures in collaboration with the American Turkish Council, the New York chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America, and the University of Pennsylvania Museum.

ARIT Friends groups in North America and Turkey support the work of the Institute. The ARIT Newsletter is sent to all members of the Friends organizations. 

 

Contact Information

            American Research Institute in Turkey, U.S. Office

               Telephone       (215) 898-3474
                FAX                 (215) 898-0657

                Postal address
                ARIT
                University of Pennsylvania Museum
                3260 South Street
                Philadelphia  PA  19104-6324

      E-mail and web
      leinwand at sas.upenn.edu

   

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ARIT institutional member, the University of Pennsylvania, houses the ARIT office in its Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology in Philadelphia. The University Museum also sponsors a lecture series cooperatively with ARIT and the American Turkish Council.

   

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The School of Arts and Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania provides the web server for this site.

 

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ARIT programs and facilities have financial support from U.S. government agencies including: the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (http://exchanges.state.gov/), the United States Department of Education (http://www.ed.gov/), and the National Endowment for the Humanities (http://www.neh.gov/).

 

Additional support comes from private sources including the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (http://www.mellon.org), the Samuel H. KressFoundation (http://www.kressfoundation.org/kress/), the J. Paul Getty Foundation (http://www.getty.edu/), ARIT institutional memberships, and many private supporters through the Friends of ARIT organizations in the U.S. and Turkey.