resources

On-Campus Resources:
Harvard Centers and Institutes

Harvard is home to a number of excellent centers and institutes that you should utilize as you search for the program and region of the world in which you would like to study abroad.

Also bear in mind that many grant, scholarship and fellowship opportunities are available through these groups, particularly for summer study abroad, to students who intend to pursue academic study in regions of the world that are of primary interest to respective centers.

Below is a list of some of these organizations, divided according to their world region of primary concern:

Africa
African Studies at Harvard/Committee on African Studies

Department of African and African-American Studies/W.E.B. Du Bois Institute

Asia
Asia Center

Fairbank Center for East Asian Research

Edwin O. Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies

Korea Institute

(Asia/Russia/Eurasia)
The Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus at Harvard University

Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Harvard Ukranian Research Institute

Europe
Center for Hellenic Studies

Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies

Ukranian Research Institute

Middle East
Center for Middle Eastern Studies

The Center for Jewish Studies

Latin America & the Caribbean
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

General
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

Center for International Development
Also check out the 2004-05 CID/BHUMI publication
"Thinking Global: Guide to studying international development at Harvard & beyond"

Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, KSG

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