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Member Institutions and Sponsors
This page contains information and links to Inner Asian programs, research efforts and faculty at Institutional Members of the American Center for Mongolian Studies. The ACMS welcomes all institutions with an interest in Inner Asia to join the ACMS and support its efforts to build an active, multi-disciplinary research presence in Inner Asia. Individual and Corporate Patrons are also listed.
Institutional Members
American-Eurasian Research Institute
John W. Olsen at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona has been the co-leader of the Joint Mongolian-Russian-American Archeological Expeditions in Mongolia since 1995. The Center of Middle Eastern Studies and the Center of Near Eastern Studies also have an interest in Mongolia. Maria Fernandez-Gimenez in the Renewable Natural Resources Department also spent time working with property rights and resource management on common-property grasslands in Mongolia.
Austin College is a selective liberal-arts college with 1200 students in Sherman, Texas, one hour north of Dallas. Austin College served as the initial US base for the ACMS, and has an active Asian Studies Program with numerous interactions with Mongolia. In summer 2001, five Austin College students spent over two months in Mongolia and neighboring countries researching Mongolia's foreign relations through a student-faculty research project sponsored by ASIANetwork and the Freeman Foundation. Austin College students have also twice represented Mongolia at Model UN competitions, and the campus Rotaract club raised over $1200 to support a center for homeless children in Ulaanbaatar.
The International Center for East Asian Archeology and Cultural History at Boston University works with East Asian scholars throughout the world and coordinates a range of archaeological research projects. The ICEAACH is in the process of compiling comprehensive databases of published research, archaeological sites, and artifacts. It works with the Department of Anthropolog, Department of Archaeology and the Program on East Asian Studies, and other BU departments and institutes.
University of British Columbia
The Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia has established a Program on Inner Asia that includes a Mongolia Lecture Series.
Columbia University - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
University of Hawaii at Manoa, School of Hawaiian, Asian & Pacific Studies
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies and the Russian and East European Studies Center support programs related to Mongolia. The Slavic and East European Library has an information page with links to information on Mongolia.
Chinggis Khan College, Ulaanbaatar
Indiana University is one of the leading schools in the USA in the field of Mongolian Studies. It hosts the Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies (RIFIAS), the Central Eurasian Studies Department and the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center. IU offers regular and summer courses in Mongolian language. It is also home to the Mongolia Society, the oldest and largest academic society related to Mongolia in the United States. The Mongolia Society offers publications related to Mongolia, sponsors speakers and an annual meeting, and offers many links to sites such as the comprehensive Mongolia WWW Virtual Library and the Mongolia Homepage with information on Mongolia's economy, culture and politics. It also has compiled a Directory of Mongolists.
Under the International Studies and Programs office, the Michigan State University Asian Studies Center (ASN) was named a National Undergraduate Resource Center (Title VI NRC) in 2000 by the U.S Department of Education. ASN directs one of the largest, most diverse programs of education about Asia in the Midwest.
Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Croix Watershed Research Station
Smithsonian Institute - National Museum of Natural History
The Arctic Studies Center at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, has an active research program in Mongolia focusing on the anthropology of early Eurasian nomads. The exhibit, "Modern Mongolia: Reclaiming Genghis Khan" was held in summer 2002 at the National Museum of Natural History.
National University of Mongolia
North America-Mongolia Business Council
North Georgia College and State University
NGCSU offers a course on the Mongol Empire. Faculty members are also developing a course on Mongolia that will be offered in the near future.
The Honors College of the University of Pittsburgh annually organizes a group of undergraduate students who travel to Mongolia for a summer course. The Honors College also coordinates the class "World of Mongolia". The University Center for International Studies and its Asian Studies Center sponsor programs related to Mongolia, and Dr. John C. Weidman of the School of Education has worked on the reform of higher education in Mongolia.
The Tibetan Museum Society , a 501(c)(4) non-profit association , is a recently formed, civic league of concerned international citizens who wish to advocate museum exhibition of Asian art from ancient Mongolia and the Greater Himalayan Region. Through a broad range of programs and projects, the Society's two primary focuses are: 1) to provide financial support to selected museums that enrich the arts with display of historically significant representations of Buddhist culture and 2) to protect sacred, religious shrines, from which Buddhist art is gathered for public sale or display against removal without consent, artifacts of any kind.
The Mongolian Program at Western Washington University was established in 1975 as a part of the Center for East Asian Studies. Teaching and research are supported by the largest collection of books on Mongolia in North America, numbering 8,200 titles, including works on the Buryat, Kalmyk, Oirat, Daghur, Dongxiang, Engger (Eastern Yugur) and other Mongolian groups. The WWU libraries house twenty-five titles of Mongolian serial publications on subscription, as well as incomplete runs of about fifteen other periodicals from all parts of Mongolia, including many local and "internal" publications. The collection also includes scores of records, tapes, slides, maps, other audio-visual materials and a nearly complete collection of the daily email news from Mongolia. A new web-based course in Beginning Mongolian Language is available through the Center for East Asian Studies.
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Winona State University, Winona Minnesota
Individual and Group Patrons
Tony Ettinger
Ken Heldenfels
Carolyn Irwin
Esther Jacobson-Tepfer
Jo Jagoda
Edward Story
C Vanderpool
Jack Weatherford
Corporate Patrons
Boojum Expeditions: Uncommon Adventures in Mongolia since 1994. Offices in US and UB
Nomadic Expeditions was founded by Mongolian-American Jalsa Urubshurow after Mongolias peaceful revolution in 1990. He and his staff are dedicated to acting as a knowledgeable friend and guide to each traveler in the hopes of enabling each to achieve a dream of their own.
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Last Updated: March 7, 2007