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- International and Area Studies Digital Monographs - Selected digital editions of monographs published by the International and Area Studies Department of the University of California, Berkeley.
- Center for Armenian Studies @ California State University, Fresno - Currently houses the Armenian Studies Program, the Sahatdjian Armenian Studies Library, the Avedian Armenian Studies Archives, the newspaper Hye Sharzhoom, the Armenian Students Organization, and the Index of Armenian Art.
- Department of European Studies - The Department is comprised of five area studies programs: European Studies, French and Francophone Studies, German Studies, Italian Studies, and Russian / Russian and Central European Studies. Detailed information is provided in each are as well as all information needed to contact the department and faculty.
- Yale University - Council on African Studies - Coordinates the study of Africa within the university. Announces special events and colloquia, provides staff directory, lists courses with descriptions, summarizes outreach projects, and presents working papers focusing on research areas.
- Russia / Eurasia Program @ CSIS - Research arm focused on the Eurasian landmass from the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. Includes the Caucasus Initiative, Central Asia Initiative, and various online archives of publications related to the area.
- Country Studies - Full text version of books included in the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army.
- Kyoto University - Center for African Area Studies - Japanese academic research institution in Japan devoted to African Studies. Details organizational research initiatives and provides history and photographs from past activities.
- Central Eurasian Studies Society - Non-profit research organization of scholars interested on Central Eurasian studies. Publishes the Central Eurasian Studies Review journal. Based in Harvard University.
- Department of American Studies - Hebrew University of Jerusalem - The first academic unit in the country to offer interdisciplinary studies in the field of American Studies, comprising history, spiritual and literary culture, and constitutional heritage. Today, our Department is the only one to offer post-graduates studies, both at the M.A. and Ph.D. levels, together with complementary undergraduate unit.
- Canadian Studies Program - Features undergraduate programs, courses, faculty listing, research opportunities, events, links and The Centre for North American Studies Outreach. Study abroad semesters and intensive study of French available. Located at Duke University in Durham, NC, USA.
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- GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies - GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg emerged from the German Overseas Institute (founded in 1964) after a restructuring process in 2006. The institute is the largest German and one of the largest European research institutes of Area Studies and Comparative Area Studies with about 50 researchers.
- UK Council for Area Studies Associations - The UK Council for Area Studies Association (UKCASA) was founded in 2003 to promote and support Area studies research and teaching in the United Kingdom. Its current chair is Professor Philip Davies, De Montfort University.
- Area studies - In the humanities and social sciences, area studies are interdisciplinary fields of research and scholarship pertaining to a particular geographical, national/federal, or cultural region. The term exists primarily as a general description for what are, in the practice of scholarship, many heterogeneous fields of research.
- Middle Eastern studies - Middle Eastern studies is a name given to a number of academic programs associated with the study of the culture, politics, economy, and geography of the Middle East, an area that is generally interpreted to cover a range of nations extending from North Africa in the west to the Chinese frontier, including Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia and multiple other nations. It is considered as part of area studies taking an interdisclipinary approach to ...
- Queer studies - Queer studies is the study of issues relating to sexual orientation and gender identity. Other universities have labelled this area of analysis Sexual Diversity Studies, Sexualities Studies, or LGBTQ Studies.